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New Delhi: After 50 years of the Apollo 17 mission in December 1972, when man first landed on the Moon, NASA is planning to send a team of four astronauts on a journey around the Moon February 6. The Artemis II crew includes NASA’s commander...

New Delhi: Union Minister of State for Earth Sciences, Dr Jitendra Singh, launched India's first-ever open-sea marine fish farming project from the Andaman Sea Sunday. The minister described the initiative as one of the first major steps in the direction of realising the Blue Economy...

Cape Canaveral: An ailing astronaut returned to Earth with three others Thursday, ending their space station mission more than a month early in NASA's first medical evacuation. SpaceX guided the capsule to a middle-of-the-night splashdown in the Pacific near San Diego, less than 11 hours...

Bhubaneswar: A group of researchers at IIT Bhubaneswar has developed a satellite-based cost-effective technology for Bauxite prospecting and exploration in Odisha. Bauxite, the primary ore of aluminium, is a critical raw material for industries such as aerospace, construction, and packaging. With the global aluminium market...

New York/Washington: India highlighted its firm commitment to strengthening and securing critical mineral supply chains as it participated in a key ministerial meeting hosted by US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent. Minister for Railways, Information & Broadcasting, Electronics & Information Technology Ashwini Vaishnaw participated in the...

New York: Apple will rely on Google to help finish its efforts to smarten up its virtual assistant Siri and bring other artificial intelligence features to the iPhone as the trendsetting company plays catch up in technology's latest craze. The deal allowing Apple to tap...

London: The UK's Office of Communications (Ofcom) Monday launched an investigation into X over the “deeply concerning” reports of its Grok artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot generating sexualised imagery to determine if it breached the country's Online Safety Act. The independent media watchdog said it had...

Sriharikota: ISRO's PSLV-C62 rocket carrying 16 satellites, including a foreign Earth Observation satellite, encountered an anomaly, the space agency saidMonday, signalling the failure of the mission. Disturbances in the rocket and later deviation from the flight path were observed when strap-on motors were providing thrust...

Sriharikota (Andhra Pradesh): ISRO's PSLV-C62, carrying an Earth Observation satellite and several commercial payloads, encountered "an anomaly during the third stage of the flight", space agency chairman V Narayanan said Monday. The 44.4 metre tall four-stage rocket lifted off as scheduled at 10.18 am from...

Sriharikota (Andhra Pradesh): ISRO's trusted workhorse PSLV lifted off from the spaceport in Sriharikota Monday, carrying an earth observation satellite along with 14 other commercial payloads for both domestic and overseas customers. Marking the first launch of the year, the mission is part of the...