Iran on Friday launched an observation satellite into orbit above Earth, its third since 2009, the official IRNA news agency reported.

Civilizations From Oldest Stars Had Enough Time To Reach Earth If They Wanted To: Researchers. Washington: If alien life really exists, they would have found humans by now, but consciously avoiding us for unknown reasons, a new study has suggested. Researchers, who calculated the time a society would take to muster up resources and know-how to travel to another world, found that alien civilizations starting from the oldest stars in the galaxy would have had more than enough time to reach Earth.

Chandigarh: The Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) will be deploying airborne lasers and sensors to generate precision data about Himalayan topography and the amount of snow cover over the world’s highest mountain range. This data, part of which would be translated into maps, would assist in the movement and deployment of troops, planning military operations as well as provide inputs for civic development and calculating the extent and availability of fresh water resources.

A Permanent Lunar Base Can Be Set Up By Adapting Tech Used In Building. Could the United States establish a moon colony and develop a new propulsion system for going to Mars? All within eight years of a Newt Gingrich presidency, as Gingrich promised this week?
The answers seem to be technologically yes, economically iffy and politically very difficult.

Washington: Fearing a catastrophic galactic collision, the US has said it will hold talks with the European Union, India and other nations , to develop a code of conduct for activities in outer space. "The United States has decided to join with the European Union and other nations to develop an International Code of Conduct for Outer Space Activities," secretary of state Hillary Clinton said on Tuesday.

Geneva: Time could soon be up for the leap second - the extra moment added to universal time to keep it in sync with the earth's movement - as experts consider abolishing it later this week. Coordinated Universal Time ( UTC) is based on about 400 atomic clocks at laboratories around the world, occasionally corrected with a leap second to align it with the earth's varying rotation. The world's computer systems need to be adjusted accordingly, leaving them open to error, and many countries including the US and France want to end the 40-year-old practice.