Sci-Tech

New Delhi: NASA astronauts Sunita Williams and Barry Wilmore, who flew to the International Space Station (ISS) in June this year on board Boeing's faulty Starliner capsule, will return to Earth early next year, the space agency said in a release. NASA will return the...

Cape Canaveral: The two astronauts who will spend extra time at the International Space Station are Navy test pilots who have ridden out long missions before. Astronauts Butch Wilmore and Sunita Williams have been holed up at the space station with seven others since the...

Paris: Pavel Durov, billionaire co-founder and chief executive of Telegram, was arrested at the Bourget airport outside Paris on Saturday evening for alleged offences related to the popular messaging app, media reports said, citing police officials Durov was travelling aboard his private jet, TF1 TV...

New Delhi: The funding momentum for the startup ecosystem in the country continued with more than $265 million being raised via 16 deals this week. The biggest fund-raise came with omnichannel jewellery startup Bluestone securing $107.2 million in its pre-IPO round. In the fintech space,...

New Delhi: Tamil Nadu-based startup Space Zone, in collaboration with the Martin Group Saturday successfully launched “India’s first reusable hybrid rocket 'RHUMI-1'”. RHUMI-1, carrying 3 Cube satellites and 50 PICO satellites was launched to a suborbital trajectory from the TTDC Ground in Thiruvidandhai, ECR, Chennai...

New Delhi: Even as global space scientists are working on the concept of colonising Mars, new research has identified materials, like rubber, synthetic fibres, and some polymers that can potentially protect astronauts on the Red Planet from hazardous cosmic radiation. Mars is arid and lacks...

New Delhi: IT major Cognizant's subsidiary TriZetto has slapped a lawsuit on Infosys in a US federal court, accusing the Bengaluru-headquartered company of stealing trade secrets and information related to healthcare insurance software. Infosys, in a statement, denied all allegations. The company asserted it is...

New Delhi: Tamil Nadu-based startup Space Zone, in collaboration with the Martin Group Saturday successfully launched India’s first reusable hybrid rocket 'RHUMI-1'. RHUMI-1, carrying 3 Cube satellites and 50 PICO satellites was launched to a suborbital trajectory from the TTDC Ground in Thiruvidandhai, ECR, Chennai...

Bhubaneswar: In order to commemorate the success of Chandrayaan-3 mission, with the safe landing of Vikram Lander, and deployment of Pragyan Rover on the lunar surface August 23, 2023, Regional Science Centre (RSC) here celebrated National Space Day (NSD) Friday. RSC organised various events for...

New Delhi: The ISRO Friday threw open its scientific data gathered from the Chandrayaan-3 mission for researchers across the world for analyses to mark the first anniversary of India landing a spacecraft on the Moon. The space agency has granted access to over 55 gigabytes...