scorecard

science space


Top Stories



Latest Stories


Business Insider Latest Story Image

From launch vehicles to space tourism, Indian space start-ups aim high

The Vikram-S rocket, developed over the past two years and built using 3-D printing technology, rea…

PTI   


Business Insider Latest Story Image

Vikram-S marks "The Beginning" of private venture in Indian space programme with maiden success

India on Friday successfully placed three satellites into orbit on a rocket completely developed by…

Business Insider Latest Story Image

100 startups registered with ISRO to work in space tech domains: Chairman

Chairman of the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), S. Somanath on Thursday said that about …

Business Insider Latest Story Image

ISRO's rocket launch and tracking fee is nominal: Skyroot Aerospace

The fee charged by the Indian space agency for the rocket launch and tracking services is nominal, …

Business Insider Latest Story Image

Research suggests synthetic black holes radiate like real ones

Understanding black holes is the key to unravelling the most fundamental laws governing the cosm…

ANI   


Business Insider Latest Story Image

World to witness 'Blood Moon' spectacle in the sky on November 8

Coming exactly 14 days (two Tuesdays) after the October 25 partial solar eclipse -- the lunar ec…

Business Insider Latest Story Image

New infrared photos of the 'Pillars of Creation' from the James Webb Telescope reveal star-creating cosmic dust and massive galaxy clusters

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope’s mid-infrared view of the Pillars of Creation.NASA, ESA, CSA, ST…

Katherine Tangalakis-Lippert   


Business Insider Latest Story Image

ISRO gearing up to launch the next set of 36 OneWeb satellites in January 2023

According to the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), the flight acceptance hot test of a …

Business Insider Latest Story Image

William Shatner was right, 2 Blue Origin astronauts said: spaceflights do trigger grief and sadness

William Shatner said his Blue Origin space flight felt "like a funeral." Sharon and Marc Hagle also…

Kate Duffy   


Business Insider Latest Story Image

ISRO carries out key test of its heaviest rocket's engine

The engine is assigned for the LVM3-M3 mission identified for launching the next 36 OneWeb Indi…

PTI   


Business Insider Latest Story Image

ISRO planning on Sun and Moon missions for 2023 along with commercial launches

Speaking to the reporters here Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) Chairman S. Somanath …

Business Insider Latest Story Image

Countdown begins for ISRO's historic rocket launch

The 43.5 metre tall and weighing 644 ton LVM3 M2 rocket is scheduled to blast off from the first…

Business Insider Latest Story Image

The pioneer of ORS Dilip Mahalanabis passes away at 88 in Kolkata

His family sources said that he was admitted to a private hospital in Kolkata a couple of weeks …

Business Insider Latest Story Image

Chandrayaan-2 spectrometer maps abundance of sodium on moon for the first time

Chandrayaan-1 X-ray Fluorescence Spectrometer (C1XS) detected sodium from its characteristic lin…

PTI   


Business Insider Latest Story Image

Scientists find new evidence for liquid water on Mars

The results, published in the journal Nature Astronomy, provide the first independent line of ev…

PTI   


Business Insider Latest Story Image

NASA pushes back Artemis I Moon mission launch to November

As teams complete post-storm recovery operations, NASA has determined it will focus Artemis I la…

Business Insider Latest Story Image

China plans three missions to the Moon after discovering a new lunar mineral that may be a future energy source

The mineral, Changesite-(Y), was found in samples obtained by China's space exploration in 2020 and…

Jyoti Mann   


Kate Duffy   


Business Insider Latest Story Image

Elon Musk's SpaceX wins $1.4 billion NASA contract for 5 more astronaut launches to the International Space Station

Overall, SpaceX has won 14 missions from NASA, bringing the total value of its contract to nearly $…

Kate Duffy   


Business Insider Latest Story Image

NASA to re-attempt the launch of the Artemis 1 moon mission on September 3

The US space agency will now target September 3 as the new launch date for the Artemis I Moon missi…

Business Insider Latest Story Image

SpaceX and ULA set to launch robots into orbit next year that will grab space junk and fix satellites

The robots, named after humans, are designed to perform different tasks in orbit. Meet Barry, Fred,…

Kate Duffy   


Business Insider Latest Story Image

Why this professor is using $50,000 of his retirement savings to realize his childhood dream and fly into space

Chris Cokinos explained why he's flying to space with World View, which caters to those with more m…

Urooba Jamal   


Business Insider Latest Story Image

Elon Musk's SpaceX lands $2 million Air Force deal for Starlink internet despite FCC's rejection of $886 million subsidy

SpaceX has the most well-established satellite network compared with other firms which are "in thei…

Kate Duffy   


Business Insider Latest Story Image

SpaceX will launch top secret US spy satellites with the reusable Falcon Heavy rocket now that it's received Space Force approval, report says

SpaceX's Falcon Heavy, the world's most powerful rocket, will launch spy satellites for a mission l…

Kate Duffy   


Business Insider Latest Story Image

SpaceX will fly Russian cosmonauts to the ISS under new NASA deal with Russia's space agency

Under the NASA deal, cosmonaut Anna Kikina will be the first Russian to launch on SpaceX's Crew Dra…

Kate Duffy