Science

Hyderabad, Dec 20: One of the splendid celestial phenomena 'Jupiter in Conjunction with Saturn' will occur at 11.51 PM on Monday.

An astronomer has spotted a little tiny speck flying past the Sun which is a recently discovered rare comet, as the world witnessed the total solar eclipse this month.

NASA has approved the Mars Sample Return (MSR) multi-mission effort to advance to the next phase in preparation to bring the first pristine samples from Mars back to Earth. During this phase, the programme will mature critical technologies and make critical design decisions, as well as assess industry partnerships, NASA said on Friday. The first endeavour of this campaign is in progress as the...

Beijing, Dec 17: China's Chang'e-5 probe successfully touched down on Earth in the early hours of Thursday, bringing home the first samples of the moon in over 40 years.

Sriharikota, Dec 17: The Indian Space Research Organisation (Isro)'s PSLV-C50 lifted off successfully from the Sriharikota spaceport near Chennai. The rocket is carrying orbiting communication satellite CMS-01 (formerly GSAT-12R).

Sriharikota, Dec 16: The Indian space agency said the countdown for the December 17 evening launch of communication satellite CMS-01 (formerly GSAT-12R) began at 2.41 p.m on Wednesday and the fuel for the rocket PSLV-C50 has been filled.

Beijing, Dec 15: The China National Space Administration on Tuesday announced that the country's Mars probe, Tianwen-1, is currently more than 100 million km away from Earth and is functioning normally.

Washington, Dec 12: A study in the Journal of Medical Internet Research introduced Biocogniv's new AI-COVID software that can easily predict the probability of COVID-19 infection.

Two pharmaceutical companies in line for first conditional approval for their Covid-19 vaccine by the EU's medicine regulator said Wednesday their documents were "unlawfully accessed" during a cyberattack on a European Medicines Agency server.

New Delhi, Dec 7: The Supreme Court on Monday refused to entertain a plea filed by ARG Outlier Media Private Limited, which owns the Republic Media network, seeking protection for the group and its employees in the cases lodged against them in Maharashtra.