A 140-foot space rock, Asteroid 2007 EG, will pass relatively close to Earth soon. Scientists say it’s harmless, yet they’re watching carefully. Why does this flyby matter for future asteroid defence?

Tarkeshwari Sinha became a parliamentarian at 26 and was India’s first female deputy finance minister and Jawaharlal Nehru’s ...

Former chief secretary Jayant Kumar Banthia has been appointed to head the committee, which has been asked to submit its ...

Ambuj Sahu is a doctoral candidate in political science at Indiana University Bloomington and a visiting assistant professor at Rishihood University, New Delhi. He is a recipient of the Smith ...

The plants produce axillary inflorescences bearing one or several tubular or funnel-shaped flowers, often with delicate ...

A new discovery reveals over 5,000 perfectly aligned pits on a hillside in Peru.

Scientists from the Botanical Survey of India have rediscovered a rare plant species endemic to Arunachal Pradesh nearly 189 years after it was last recorded during a field survey in Lohit district, ...

A young woman steps nervously into a makeshift screening tent. Inside, a small tripod-mounted thermal camera waits. Asked to place her hands behind her head, sh ...

"It slowly dawned on me after I started my position at the University of Illinois that this was the perfect career for me," Rohit Bhargava says.

Electrons in graphene break a key law of metals and reveal a strange quantum fluid. The discovery has surprised scientists.

Dholera: A new milestone in space research was achieved in Gujarat on Saturday as the state’s first sounding rocket was launched from Bavaliyari near Dholera ...