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  Vikram Lander: Bitter goodbye or see you soon?

  September 21, 2019 13:52 IST

  The lander was designed to work on the surface of the moon during relative daylight. It was designed for a soft landing but had made a hard landing. To top it all, it had an operational life of 14 earth days, which ended Saturday morning.

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  NASA is going to moon, on most powerful rocket ever | Video

  September 20, 2019 18:12 IST

  In what can be termed as the next chapter of human space exploration, NASA is all set to embark on a human mission to the moon, 50 years after its first successful moon mission. Indiatvnews.com brings to you a fascinating story of NASA's plan to stay on the moon till 2024.

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  Stay well, Vikram

  September 20, 2019 14:46 IST

  The clock is ticking. Time is running. Chances are slim. We may never be able to strike communication with Vikram Lander if not today. Even if Vikram managed survival during its September 7 lunar descent while losing contact with the earth, Vikram Lander's instruments will be frozen out of operation during the cold lunar night of September 21.

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  Experts panel analysing cause of Vikram's failure

  September 20, 2019 11:19 IST

  In a statement issued after the loss of Vikram on September 7 while landing on the moon, ISRO said a national committee of academicians and ISRO experts are analysing the cause of communication loss with Vikram.  

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  Chandrayaan-2: What is ISRO saying on communication loss with Vikram

  September 19, 2019 20:01 IST

  In its latest update on Chandrayaan-2, ISRO said a national-level committee comprising academics and ISRO experts are analysing the cause of communication loss with Vikram Lander ahead of its planned soft landing on the lunar surface.

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  NASA captures images of Chandrayaan-2 Moon landing site

  September 19, 2019 20:04 IST

  NASA's Moon orbiter has captured images of the lunar region where Chandrayaan-2 made an attempt to soft land, PTI quoted a media report as saying. According to the report, NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) spacecraft has snapped a series of images during its flyby on September 17 of Vikram's attempted landing sight near the Moon's uncharted south pole, and the US space agency is now analysing and reviewing them.

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  Chandrayaan-2 orbiter performing scheduled science experiments: ISRO

  September 19, 2019 18:37 IST

  Latest update on Chandrayaan-2: Chandrayaan-2 orbiter is continuing to perform scheduled science experiments to complete satisfaction, ISRO said in its latest update on Twitter.

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  Collision between asteroids sparked Earth's biodiversity: Study

  September 19, 2019 14:48 IST

  Researchers have found that a collision between rocks in space around 470 million years ago greatly influenced the diversity of life on the Earth. The study, published in the journal Science Reports, found that a 150 km asteroid between Jupiter and Mars was crushed 470 million years ago, and the dust spread throughout the inner solar system consisting of the first four planets.

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  Search for Vikram on: NASA scientists analyse images from orbiter

  September 19, 2019 11:16 IST

  LRO project scientist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, Noah Petro, said on Wednesday that they were now analysing the images taken on Tuesday "and we will make a statement at some point when we can identify the lander."  

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  NASA manager casts doubt on 2024 moon landing by astronauts

  September 18, 2019 23:16 IST

  A top NASA manager is casting doubt on the space agency’s ability to land astronauts on the moon by 2024.  

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  'One of world's oldest bird species discovered'

  September 18, 2019 13:51 IST

  Bony-toothed birds (Pelagornithids), an ancient family of huge seafaring birds, were thought to have evolved in the Northern Hemisphere -- but that theory has been upended by the discovery of the family's oldest, but smallest member in North Canterbury, New Zealand.

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  DRDO to extend tech for India's first manned space mission

  September 17, 2019 20:50 IST

  India's premier defence research organisation, the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO), will provide critical technologies for India's first manned mission to space, set to be undertaken before the 75th year of Independence.

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  New giant salamander species may be world's biggest amphibian

  September 17, 2019 14:22 IST

  Chinese giant salamanders, now classified as Critically Endangered, were once widespread throughout central, southern and eastern China, researchers noted. They have previously been considered a single species (Andrias davidianus).

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  Finding Vikram: All eyes on NASA as Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter flies over landing site tomorrow

  September 16, 2019 13:26 IST

  Finding Vikram lander: September 17 (Tuesday) is going to be a big day in Isro's efforts to track and establish contact with Vikram The Lander, that went incommunicado just 335 metres away from its landing site on Moon's South Pole on September 7.

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  Giant asteroids to pass by earth over weekend, slim chances of impact: NASA

  September 14, 2019 17:26 IST

  Asteroids are serious business. Last time a big one hit the earth, it wiped off dinosaurs. Two such astronomical giants are going to be in earth's neighbourhood this weekend. But NASA has said that Asteroid 2000 QW7 & Asteroid 2010 C01 are unlikely to hit earth and are expected to just pass by.

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  Ultimate Black: MIT engineers create the 'blackest' material ever

  September 14, 2019 17:05 IST

  The material is made from vertically aligned carbon nanotubes, or CNTs -- microscopic filaments of carbon that the team grew on a surface of chlorine-etched aluminium foil.

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  Solar system to have another foreign guest, new comet zooming towards sun

  September 14, 2019 14:18 IST

  Both NASA and the European Space Agency are reporting that a newly discovered comet zooming toward the sun is likely from another star.  

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  Newly spotted comet may be interstellar visitor

  September 14, 2019 7:25 IST

  The new comet - designated C/2019 Q4 (Borisov) - appears to have originated from outside the solar system, but it has not yet been officially confirmed, NASA said on Thursday.

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  Just one week left for ISRO to establish contact with Vikram Lander

  September 13, 2019 19:41 IST

  ​Precisely, a time period of just 8 days is left for ISRO to establish communication with Vikram Lander that went silent on September 7 during its final descent on the Chandrayaan-2 moon mission. This one-week window of opportunity for ISRO, the Indian space agency, to restore link with Vikram Lander will close on September 21. Even though hopes are fading with every passing moment, ISRO is pulling all stops to strike a communication with Vikram Lander. American Space Agency NASA too has joined in to help ISRO have this breakthrough of communicating with Chandrayaan-2 Vikram Lander.

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  ISRO to simulate varied scenarios to find why Vikram failed

  September 13, 2019 16:52 IST

  The Indian space agency will simulate various scenarios, including what it has not done and what it had assumed, to arrive the probable cause of its moon lander Vikram hitting the lunar surface after veering away from its plotted path and losing communication link with ground stations, a retired senior ISRO official said.  

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  Universe 2 billion years younger? Study makes startling revelations

  September 13, 2019 15:15 IST

  New calculations suggest the universe could be a couple billion years younger than scientists now estimate, and even younger than suggested by two other calculations published this year that trimmed hundreds of millions of years from the age of the cosmos.

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  NASA's Deep Space Network beaming radio frequency to Lander Vikram

  September 13, 2019 15:32 IST

  NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) is sending radio signals to Chandrayaan-2 Vikram Lander to help ISRO establish communication. NASA's Deep Space Network has been beaming radio frequency to Vikram Lander.

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  Chandrayaan-2's orbiter capable of achieving "better results": Former ISRO Chief Kiran Kumar

  September 12, 2019 19:24 IST

  Elaborating, Kumar said that the orbiter this time is equipped with critical instruments aimed at providing excellent results in comparison to Chandrayaan-1, launched more than a decade ago.

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  Why ISRO will have to meet Sept 21 deadline to establish contact with Vikram Lander

  September 12, 2019 17:12 IST

  Lander Vikram has so far not responded to communications from ISRO. The Indian Space agency is in race against time to make the contact with Vikram before September 21.

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  Water discovered for the first time on super-Earth exoplanet

  September 12, 2019 16:24 IST

  K2-18b, which is eight times the mass of Earth, is now the only exoplanet known to have both water and temperatures that could be potentially habitable, according to the study published in the journal Nature Astronomy.  

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  Calling Vikram: NASA joins ISRO to track Lander

  September 12, 2019 17:00 IST

  The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) is continuing its attempt to reach out to India's moon lander sending communication signals with its Deep Space Network (DSN), said officials.

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  Chandrayaan-2: How is ISRO trying to communicate with Vikram Lander

  September 11, 2019 20:27 IST

  India has its hopes alive on the ambitious Chandrayaan-2 moon mission even as ISRO, the Indian space agency, lost communication with the Vikram lander just some distance away from the lunar surface. It couldn't have a soft landing as planned. But nevertheless, the Indian space agency is trying its level best to establish communication with Vikram lander that has a mission life of 14 days.

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  Lander Vikram was just 335 metres away from moon when it lost contact

  September 11, 2019 11:08 IST

  Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) on Sunday found the location of Chandrayaan-2’s Vikram Lander, which had lost contact with the space agency from the Moon’s surface due to hard landing. However, in a major breakthrough, the data frozen on the big screens at the Mission Operations Complex at ISRO's Telemetry Tracking and Command Centre suggest a failure in the “fine braking phase” in the final part of Vikram’s journey (an altitude of 5 km to 400 m).