Friction burns up most falling spacecraft, but tracking networks must project wide corridors for dense metals that survive.
5 November 2026
Bengaluru-trained researcher Ramya Manjunath Anche heads a 40-member global team building a space telescope to study microscopic interstellar dust.
4 November 2026
The retired 1.5-tonne satellite is returning to Earth after two decades in space, with monitoring bands covering parts of southern India.
4 November 2026
Indian scientific expertise takes center stage as Dr Ramya Anche leads a $20 million NASA space telescope project backed by premier Indian research institutes.
18 October 2026
Dr Ramya Anche will direct the 2030 SmallSat project investigating interstellar dust, with Bengaluru and Pune institutes joining the effort.
16 October 2026
The public archive includes 11,000 images and accounts of tiny space rocks hitting the far side during a 54-minute solar eclipse.
11 October 2026
The computer scientist led the MIT team behind the Apollo flight code and coined the term software engineering.
8 October 2026
A major crew handover is underway on the International Space Station, marked by the fastest-ever flight by an American spacecraft and a shift in orbital leadership.
5 October 2026
An open-source tool will generate thousands of computer-made storms to help insurers map out escalating climate risks.
2 October 2026
The four international astronauts completed the journey from the Florida launchpad to the orbiting laboratory in just under eight hours.
2 October 2026
The double launch on Thursday saw the fastest American flight to the space station alongside a landmark test for space-based data centres.
2 October 2026
The small satellite will hunt for the violent cosmic collisions that create short gamma-ray bursts.
18 September 2026
The space startup claims NASA ran a "punitive" review that ignored congressional rules when awarding the Mars communications contract to Jeff Bezos's firm.
15 September 2026
