India's maiden moon mission, Chandrayaan-1, will carry two instruments from the American space agency National Aeronautics and Space Administration which will assess mineral resources and map the......
NASA's Phoenix spacecraft landed in the northern polar region of Mars on May 25 to begin a three-month probe of a site likely to have frozen water within reach of the lander's robotic arm.Radio......
Eminent scientist Stephen Hawking, best known for his pioneering work in tracing the origin of the universe, is looking for something new an Einstein in Africa. Hawking is backing a......
The US has decided toshoot down one ofits intelligence satellites, whichis in a wayward orbit and is due to hit earth next month. President George W Bush ordered the Pentagon to shoot down the......
India and the US have agreed to cooperate in the exploration and use of space for peaceful purposes, including in human space flight, under an agreement signed between their space agencies. A......
Higher local output estimated to depress cross-border sales Global food prices touched a 55-month low in February, falling 14 per cent from a year earlier, due to a bumper crop in 2014 which left......
US job growth increased at a fairly brisk clip in October and the unemployment rate fell to a fresh six-year low of 5.8 per cent, underscoring the economy’s resilience in the face of slowing......
With 62 of its alumni now billionaires, Harvard tops Forbes' list of Billionaire Universities this year, followed by Stanford that boasts of 28 billionaire graduates. The number of Harvard alumni......
Gaining membership to the billionaire wives' club is no easy feat. Today, there are just 110 eligible 10-figure bachelors, including divorced men, in the world. So what does it take to marry one?......
NASA Ames Research Center and Google have signed a Space Act Agreement that formally establishes a relationship to work together on a variety of challenging technical problems ranging from......
The 77th Annual Golden Globe awards have been announced. There were a few surprises and some expected nods. This year's Carol Burnett Award was presented to Ellen DeGeneres and the honorary Cecil B......
The veteran comedienne passed away at the age of 81 on September 4.Several of Joan Rivers' family members and friends from the film and television industry turned up to bid her final farewell in......
There's something oddly comforting about watching three great actors so earnestly embrace this schlocky cinema from a simpler, cheesier time in Men In Black 3, writes Raja Sen.That the Men In Black......
IMAGE: Ireland's Michael Conlan, left, and Vladimir Nikitin of Russia during their men's Bantamweight (56kg) quarter-final at the rio Olympics. Photograph: Peter Cziborra/Reuters. Olympic......
Kevin Durant stole the spotlight from LeBron James to help orchestrate a stirring 152-149 All-Star Game victory for the Western Conference on Sunday that shifted from exhibition to grudge match in......
Factbox on the 20 Premier League clubs after the transfer window closed (amounts in pounds unless stated) Arsenal: In: Laurent Koscielny (Undisclosed, FC Lorient), Marouane Chamakh (Free,......
Jamal Crawford scored 21 points to help the New York Knicks end Boston's seven-game winning streak with a convincing 107-82 victory over the Celtics on Wednesday.The host Knicks won for the third......
Tony Delk and Predrag Drobjnak both scored 16 points as the Atlanta Hawks stunned the defending NBA champion Detroit Pistons 88-72 in National Basketball Association play Friday in Auburn......