Science

India's ambitious mission to the moon piggybacking a lunar rover is postponed once again with a possible lift off only in 2019. The Chandrayan-2 mission was earlier slated for October 2018 and is now rescheduled because oftechnical glitches. This delay may now give Israel an opportunity to edge past India with its moon landing.

A Germany-based Indian-origin scientist's research alongside international experts has offered hope for more effective malaria therapy. The research has found reason behind the faster movement of the malaria-causing parasite in humans.

After delivering more than 5,900 pounds of science and supplies, the SpaceX Dragon cargo spacecraft is set to depart the International Space Station (ISS) to Earth on Friday. The spacecraft will depart the ISS, along with critical scientific research, at 12.37 pm EDT and splash down in the Pacific Ocean at about 6.17 pm, NASA said in a statement.

IIT Kharagpur has set up India's pioneering Bioelectronics Innovation Laboratory to develop futuristic battery-free implantable medical devices for treatment of brain, nerve, muscle or spinal cord disorders that are untreatable by using standard medical practices, according to the institute.

US scientists have developed a novel soft, flexible and customisable sampling device that can help in the collection of different types of organisms from the sea without harming them.

Scientists have identified a group of exoplanets located outside our solar system, where the same chemical conditions that may have led to life on Earth exist.

India's monsoon, which irrigates more than half of the country's farmland, is likely to be below an earlier forecast of normal showers, Skymet Weather Services Pvt said.

Using wearable sensor technology, researchers have developed an automatic alert system that may help people to quit smoking by sending video messages.

An increase in the activity of carbon dioxide (CO2) in the Southern Ocean could explain the mysterious growth of human civilisation 11,000 years ago, says a study.

Scientists including one of Indian-origin have developed an experimental drug that could successfully reverse hair loss, hair whitening and skin inflammation -- all previously linked to diets heavy in fat and cholesterol -- in mice.

Mars and Earth will be closest to each other on July 31 for the first time in 15 years since their historically close approach in 2003. Mars will be at a distance of 35.8 million miles (57.6 million kilometers) from Earth. Mars reaches its highest point around midnight -- about 35 degrees above the southern horizon, or one third of the distance between the horizon and overhead. Mars will be visible for much of the night. Mars was closer in 2003 than in some 60,000 years, and it's now only slightly farther from Earth now than then.

After a successful launch in April this year, NASA's newest planet hunter, the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), has now started its search for planets around nearby stars.

The first comprehensive mapping of ocean wilderness revealed that no part of the ocean is untouched by humans, and only 13 percent could be classified as "wilderness."

The United States has vowed to send the first humans to Mars by the 2030s, but space experts and lawmakers on Wednesday expressed concern that poor planning and lack of funds will delay those plans.

Using a satellite to peer beneath layers of dust and ice at Mars' south pole, scientists have detected a 12-mile-wide span of briny water, a large, stable reservoir akin to lakes buried beneath the Antarctic ice sheet on Earth.