Space Science

British astronaut dials wrong number from space

British astronaut Tim Peake dials wrong number from space.
26 December 2015, 07:22 AM

Astronomers find ancient stars in Milky Way center

Astronomers find a few stars swirling around the centre of the Milky Way that were formed not long after the universe began.
12 November 2015, 14:49 PM

Bangabandhu satellite deal inked with French firm

The telecom regulator has signed a Tk 1951.75 crore deal with Thales Alenia Space, awarding the French company a work order for commercial and broadcast satellite Bangabandhu-1.
11 November 2015, 06:25 AM

Scientists discover why Mars is losing atmosphere every second

Scientists say Mars is currently losing about one-quarter pound of atoms in its atmosphere to space every second.
6 November 2015, 06:53 AM

NASA's Scott Kelly breaks US record for most days in space

Waking up hundreds of miles above the Himalayas, astronaut Scott Kelly broke the US record for the most time spent in space with 383 days.
18 October 2015, 07:09 AM

Giant 'hole' in sun is 50 Earths wide

The sun has sprung a leak: A hole in the topmost layer of the sun and its magnetic field, the size of 50 Earths, is letting loose an ultrafast solar wind that has kicked off several nights of auroras down on Earth.
18 October 2015, 05:19 AM

Playing with water in space (video)

Playing with water in the space is indeed an exciting thing for us on Earth. NASA astronaut Scott Kelly demonstrates how it looks like.
17 October 2015, 07:34 AM

NASA spacecraft captures some of the best photos of Saturn's water-rich moon

NASA's spacecraft, Cassini, has been orbiting the ringed-planet Saturn for over 10 years, but some of the most interesting discoveries from the mission have come from its occasional visits next door to Saturn's enigmatic moon Enceladus, reports Business Insider.
17 October 2015, 05:12 AM

Martian salt streaks 'painted by liquid water'

Scientists think they can now tie dark streaks seen on the surface of Mars to periodic flows of liquid water.
28 September 2015, 15:15 PM

Latest images reveal Pluto's hazy horizon

Fresh images from Nasa's New Horizons spacecraft have captured a low-lying haze clinging to the surface of Pluto. The pictures also offer stunning views of the dwarf planet's rugged mountains and its sweeping plains.
18 September 2015, 04:34 AM

Philae video captures real-time comet landing

A new video captures the moment Philae, Europe's now-famous comet lander, first approached Comet 67P for its historic landing on 12 November last year.
15 September 2015, 16:12 PM

Gigantic Ice Slab Found on Mars Just Below the Planet's Surface

A giant slab of ice as big as California and Texas combined lurks just beneath the surface of Mars between its equator and north pole, space.com reports.
13 September 2015, 12:44 PM

New Horizons post-Pluto target just billion miles away

If a mission extension is approved, the New Horizons spacecraft will take a short jaunt to a mysterious icy object in the Kuiper Belt, reports CNET.
31 August 2015, 08:14 AM

Ice sheet bigger than Texas, California discovered on Mars

Researchers discover an ice sheet on Mars that looks bigger than Texas and California cities of US.
30 August 2015, 03:06 AM

Nasa starts year-long isolation to simulate life on Mars

A team of Nasa recruits begins living in a dome near a barren volcano in Hawaii to simulate what life would be like on Mars.
29 August 2015, 04:12 AM

Ghostly particles from outer space detected in Antarctica

Buried deep in the Antarctic ice, an observatory has spotted ghostly, nearly massless particles coming from inside the galaxy and points beyond the Milky Way.
22 August 2015, 13:42 PM

'Farewell' pictures of Saturn moon Dione

The Cassini mission to Saturn returns its final close-up images of the gas giant's Dione moon.
21 August 2015, 14:58 PM

Nasa debunks asteroid hit scare

The US space agency has dismissed the much talked about rumour on social media and various posts stating that a giant space rock impacting the Blue Marble sometime between September 15-28 this year, reports the Times of India.
20 August 2015, 16:11 PM

Video of flying over Pluto is absolutely amazing

People were treated to beautiful photos of Pluto’s surface when Nasa flew a spacecraft by Pluto for the first time in history last month on July 14, but unfortunately, there was no video of the dwarf planet's flyby -- until now!
19 August 2015, 05:38 AM

Fading cosmos quantified in 21 colours

A team of astronomers publishes a multi-coloured survey of five chunks of space - and offered the best estimate yet of how fast the Universe is fading.
11 August 2015, 13:46 PM