`Lucky Peanuts` wish from NASA to ISRO on Mars mission

Last Updated: Saturday, November 2, 2013, 12:23

It is a `lucky peanuts` wish from the NASA to Indian Space Research Organisation on its ambitious mission to Mars.

iPhone app tells if spy satellite is watching you!

Last Updated: Monday, October 21, 2013, 13:54

A new iPhone app provides notifications to a user when spy satellites or unclassified imaging satellites are zooming above their heads and taking pictures.

NASA`s new moon probe settles into lunar orbit

Last Updated: Tuesday, October 8, 2013, 11:02

Politics may be keeping most of NASA`s workers home, but that didn`t stop the US space agency`s new moon probe from achieving lunar orbit, officials said on Monday.

Iran to send satellite into orbit

Last Updated: Tuesday, September 10, 2013, 19:36

Iran plans to send its indigenously-designed satellite Sharifsat into orbit in the near future, a media report said Tuesday.

Cheryl Cole`s 630,000 pounds `X Factor` fight

Last Updated: Monday, September 9, 2013, 13:40

Cheryl Cole is reportedly facig a fight for her money after learning she could lose up to 630,000 pounds in her legal row with the `X Factor`.

Indian `military` satellite put into earth`s orbit

Last Updated: Tuesday, September 3, 2013, 23:28

India`s first `military` satellite was Wednesday put into the geosynchronous orbit, about 36,000 km above the earth, five days after it was launched Aug 30 onboard an European rocket from Kourou in French Guiana off the Pacific coast.

Changes in earth`s orbit blamed for Antarctic warming that ended last ice age

Last Updated: Thursday, August 15, 2013, 22:08

A US-led research team studying a new ice core from West Antarctica found that warming there was well under way 20,000 years ago.

New Explorer mission to hover in `Goldilocks orbit`

Last Updated: Thursday, August 1, 2013, 21:48

The new Explorer mission will be placed in ` Goldilocks orbit` so that it is perfectly positioned to map the locations of more than 500 transiting exoplanets, extrasolar planets that eclipse their host star.

Simon Cowell to be part of Cheryl Cole`s court hearing

Last Updated: Tuesday, July 16, 2013, 09:09

Simon Cowell will be present for a court hearing in connection with singer Cheryl Cole`s claim that "The X Factor" producers Blue Orbit have not given her the promised fee.

Indian satellite`s orbit to be raised Tuesday night

Last Updated: Tuesday, July 2, 2013, 19:26

Indian space agency ISRO will around midnight Tuesday carry out activities to raise the orbit of its first navigation satellite, Indian Regional Navigation Satellite-1A (IRNSS-1A).

UP begins work on online policy

Last Updated: Tuesday, July 2, 2013, 19:25

Uttar Pradesh has begun drafting an online policy aimed at catering to news websites, portals and news wires, an official said Tuesday.

Russian freighter resets space station orbit

Last Updated: Saturday, February 23, 2013, 09:38

The engines of a Russian Progress M-17M space freighter were fired to re-adjust the orbit of the International Space Station (ISS), a Russian space agency spokesman said.