Indian scientists detect crack in Earth's magnetic shield

The world’s largest and most sensitive cosmic ray monitor, located in India, has recorded a burst of galactic cosmic rays that indicates a crack in the Earth’s magnetic shield,......

AWESOME Images Of The Heavens!

The Royal Observatory Greenwich has announced the shortlisted images for the 2022 Astronomy Photographer of the Year! The Awe-Inspiring scenes of the Milky Way rising, galaxies colliding, stellar......

Space shuttle Endeavour completes its last mission

Endeavour and its crew safely returned to the Earth on Wednesday after 16 days, successfully completing its last mission and the penultimate flight in NASA's 30-year-old space shuttle programme.......

Desi space observatory, the fourth of its kind, set for launch

India's observatory will be the fourth in space, after the Hubble, Russia's Spektr R and Suzaku of Japan. Raghu Krishnan reports Astrosat, India’s first space observatory, is set to be......