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FM gives reforms pill for ailing economy with privatisation, policy tweaks

In the latest announcement, the government's focus was on structural reform in sectors such as coal, minerals, aviation, defence, aerospace, power, and social infrastructure

Launch pad: Centre opens up space sector for private players to grow

Private players would be allowed to use the Indian Space Research Organisation's (ISRO) facilities to improve their competencies

Tom Cruise plots movie to shoot in outer space with Elon Musk's SpaceX

Cruise performed daring stunts like hanging off the side of a jet plane and scaling skyscrapers, in past 'Mission: Impossible' instalments.

Awaiting lift-off: What keeps India's share of global space biz grounded

India's share in the estimated $360 billion global space industry is less than two per cent

In a big year for science, we learnt a lot more about the universe

Enough for us to hope that 2020 will bring more in the way of advances in our understanding of the universe around us

The rebus of the skies

The fascination for the skies and what lies beyond has fathered an expansive stockpile of astronomical myths and legends and in India, also an elaborate astrological system

Kerala to set up India's first space tech park in Thiruvananthapuram

A space museum named after former President of India Dr APJ Abdul Kalam will also be a part of the infrastructure

Understanding time dilation: A year in space makes you older or younger?

How space travel and long-duration missions might change the human body, and whether those changes are permanent or reversible once astronauts return to Earth, is largely unknown

Inspired by Origami, scientists design materials for reusable spacecraft

Researchers from the University of Washington in the US have developed a novel solution to help reduce impact forces

Universe's first molecule, formed 14 billion years ago, detected in space

Helium combined first with free electrons to form the first ever neutral atom, according to the study published in Nature

After a start with key missions, 2019 to be a big year for space subjects

On January 1 NASA's New Horizons space probe made the most distant planetary flyby ever, and captured images of a small object 4 billion miles away from earth

Yes, you can look into the past. All you have to do is stare at the sky

With the aid of a telescope you can see millions or even billions of years into the past with your very own eyes