Astronomers are expected to reveal the first close up images of a monster black hole on Wednesday. Eight radio telescopes around the world have been pointed at two of the cosmic behemoths.
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Japan’s Hayabusa2 spacecraft has successfully dropped an explosive designed to make a crater on an asteroid and collect its underground samples to find possible clues to the origin of the solar system.
The CSIR wants to engage much more actively with the private sector as it rolls out a new strategic plan to grow its revenue from industry and reduce its reliance on public-sector income.
Nasa has criticised India’s satellite destruction test for endangering astronauts on board the International Space Station.
US Vice President Mike Pence has called for American astronauts to return to the moon within five years.
Astronomers have made the first direct observations of a planet outside the solar system using a technique that combines the light from multiple telescopes.
Why do we exist? A new experiment at Cern’s Large Hadron Collider has taken us a step closer to figuring it out.
Nasa’s InSight lander on Mars is no longer drilling into the surface of the planet as intended amid fears that rocks or gravel are blocking its instruments, the American space agency has said.
An Israeli spacecraft has taken the ultimate selfie on its roundabout journey to the moon. Organisers for the privately funded mission released the photo on Tuesday, one-and-a-half weeks after its launch.
No-one was on board the Dragon capsule that launched Saturday on its first test flight, only an instrumented dummy.