Venus on the sunAMALENDU BANDYOPADHYAYJune 6 will witness a once-in-a-lifetime phenomenon in astronomy: the transit of Venus.
Juno to JupiterAMALENDU BANDYOPADHYAYThe main mission of the spacecraft Juno, which NASA launched in August 2011, is to unlock some of Jupiter's deepest mysteries.
Mercury up closeAMALENDU BANDYOPADHYAYWhen MESSENGER, launched by NASA, began orbiting Mercury on March 18, it became the first spacecraft to do so.
A mirror to spaceAMALENDU BANDYOPADHYAYIn the 20 years of its functioning, the Hubble Space Telescope has revealed hitherto unknown secrets.
Man for MarsAMALENDU BANDYOPADHYAYThe European Space Agency and Russia's Institute of Biomedical Problems plan to simulate a 520-day mission to Mars.
Ring of fireAMALENDU BANDYOPADHYAYA SPECTACULAR sight awaits people residing at the southern tips of Kerala and Tamil Nadu on the afternoon of January 15, 2010. The moon will pass dire
Solar spectacleAMALENDU BANDYOPADHYAYTHE total eclipse of the sun that will occur on July 22, 2009, will be one of the most important astronomical events of this century for India as the
Pluto demotedAMALENDU BANDYOPADHYAYOn August 24, 2006, the International Astronomical Union stripped Pluto of its status as a planet.
Close encountersAMALENDU BANDYOPADHYAYThe Cassini mission's two years with Saturn reveal new mysteries of the planet and its satellites.
A tour of SaturnAMALENDU BANDYOPADHYAYTitan's rich organic chemistry makes it a planetary-scale laboratory for studying the pre-biotic processes that may have led to the origin of life on
Tracking a cometAMALENDU BANDYOPADHYAYThe ESA's Rosetta spacecraft is on a 10-year mission to Comet Churyumov-Gerasimenko in a bid to unravel the secrets of comets and their place in the e
A celestial spectacleAMALENDU BANDYOPADHYAYThe transit of Venus, a rare astronomical event, will occur on June 8 and will be visible all over India.
Are Hindi films problematising history? After Padmaavat, the Hindu historical tasted blood and sharpened its fangs, but the recent Samrat Prithviraj is a weak offspring of the genre, neither
SlideshowPostcards from Khasi hillsImages that mix politics, history and discomfort to document how the Khasi people made Christianity, a “foreign faith”, their own.
