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India is fast emerging as a world space hub for cost-effective satellites launches: Union Minister Jitendra Singh

World today is enamoured of Chandrayaan, Mars mission and upcoming Gaganyan," the Minister added.

Adverse effects of climate change will push 216 million people to migrate by 2050: World Bank report

The true toll could be far higher and could have significant implications for host countries, which are often unprepared to cope with the influx of new migrants.

Inspiration4 launches successfully: Here are five things you need to know about the all-civilian mission

The crew members' sleep, heart rate, blood and cognitive functions will be analyzed during the mission in order to study how rookies react in space.

Sending four civilian into orbit, Inspiration4 mission will bring space tourism one step closer to reality

The mission’s emphasis on public involvement and the fact that Inspiration4 will send regular people into orbit for three days make it a milestone in space tourism.

NASA astronaut to set American record for longest space stay by inhabiting ISS for 353 days

The extended stay will give NASA the opportunity to study how the human body adapts to life in microgravity for longer time periods.

World leaders and UN to hold closed-door climate talks on the sidelines of the General Assembly

UN representative said "It's not intended in any fashion to be a meeting in the shadows," but a way to facilitate frank dialogue "rather than pre-prepared statements or reverting to established positions."

Ebola can spread via fruit bats or from human to human contact: Everything you need to know about the virus

A vaccine developed by the US group Merck Sharp and Dohme was found to be very effective in a major study carried out in Guinea in 2015.

Ebola virus can lie dormant in survivors and trigger outbreaks even five years after infections: Study

Ebola outbreaks are usually thought to result from the virus "spilling" from an animal host to a human. But the analysis showed the Guinea strain was virtually identical to that from a 2013-16 wave.

SpaceX launches Inspiration4 into orbit, the first all-civilian crew on private Earth-circling trip

The recycled Falcon rocket soared from the same Kennedy Space Center pad used by the company's three previous astronaut flights for NASA

From a billionaire to a cancer survivor, meet crew members aboard SpaceX flight

A billionaire, Jared Isaacman, is behind the project. It was he who chartered the mission, at his own expense, inviting three anonymous people to join him, via a rather original selection process

SpaceX will launch all civilian mission Inspiration4 today, 16 September: How to watch it live

The mission will launch tomorrow, 16 September at 5.32 am IST from the Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

ISRO to launch Gaganyaan mission by end of 2022 or early 2023 after COVID delays, says Jitendra Singh

He said a brainstorming exercise by space scientists and government officials in 2015-16 helped them understand where space technology could be used.

Beards are man's face armour to right to transport a rhino - Ig Nobel prizes announce winners of strange scientific discoveries

While the ceremony was conducted online for the second time this year, it retained many in-person traditions like real Nobel laureates announcing the prizes and premiere of a mini-opera called “A Bridge Between People.”

FDA may soon grant EUA to Pfizer and Moderna COVID-19 vaccines for children aged 5-11 years

The FDA said children that are part of the clinical trials "should be monitored for at least two months for side effects."

Elon Musk posts picture of new pet dog Shiba Inu; Dogecoin, Floki cryptocurrencies register record rise

The value of another cryptocurrency, Floki Inu, has surged by 59.08 percent in the last 24 hours, while Floki Shiba has registered a growth of 23.46 percent.

Unvaccinated people are 11 times more likely to die from COVID, finds CDC study

They are also 4.5 times more likely than the fully vaccinated to get infected and over 10 times more likely to be hospitalized.

India committed to combat biggest global challenge in climate change, says Environment Minister Bhupender Yadav

Bhupender Yadav said the partnership between India and the US will help strengthen climate action.

Here are the eight space tourism options that will give you a taste for the unknown

Elon Musk's SpaceX has four private space tours - Inspiration4, AX-1, space adventure and dearMoon - lined up with various private players travelling to the moon or orbiting the earth.

Breakthrough infections: These four factors can increase the risk of vaccinated people getting COVID-19

The five most common symptoms of a breakthrough infection are a headache, a runny nose, sneezing, a sore throat and loss of smell.

FDA delays decision to ban Juul while rejecting the sale of 950,000 e-cigarettes brands, products

Matthew Myers, president of the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids, said his group will go back to court if the FDA doesn’t clarify its timeline for the remaining decisions.

Hopeful of beginning vaccination for children aged 5-11 by end-2021, says FDA vaccine chief

In the US, anyone 12 and older is eligible for the vaccine but with the new variants and schools reopening, parents are wondering when younger children can get the shots.

Massive solar storm could cause global Internet blackout for months finds new research

Only three large storms have been recorded to date, with the most recent one in 2014.

Chandrayaan 2 orbiter completed over 9,000 orbits around the moon in two years: ISRO chief

Chairman of Apex Science Board, ISRO, A S Kiran Kumar said the imaging and scientific instruments on board the satellite have been providing excellent data.

Three new heatwave hotspots in India put population at immediate health risk finds study

The central, northwest and south-central regions in India are the new hotspots of intense heat waves in the country in the last 50 years.

NGO network demands COP26 be postponed due to rising COVID cases, vaccine inequality, expensive travel

The British government has offered to make vaccines available to all participants and pay hotel quarantine costs for those who need in order to make the event safe and inclusive.

Rich countries with abundant vaccine supplies should refrain from administering booster shot till years: WHO chief

“We don’t want any more promises. We just want the vaccines,” the WHO chief said.

Kids can suffer through long COVID symptoms but are less affected than adults

About 30 percent of adult COVID-19 patients develop long-term symptoms, according to some estimates.

Most coal, oil and gas reserves need to stay underground if Paris agreement goals are to be met

Burning fuels for electricity, transportation and other uses are the chief driver of climate change, pulling long-buried carbon in fossil fuels out of the ground and depositing that carbon into the atmosphere as carbon dioxide.

Using satellite images, scientists create comprehensive global coral reef atlas online

About three quarters of the world’s reefs had not previously been mapped in this kind of in-depth way, and many not at all.

Science behind Vaccines: You don’t need to worry about COVID vaccines being ‘unnatural’ or ‘synthetic’

The mRNA vaccines are the first synthetic vaccines and it is a temporary genetic instruction that tells our cells to make a particular protein.