A timely alert by scientists at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, prompted an unscheduled manoeuvre by the MAVEN spacecraft that helped it avoid a potentially catastrophic collision with Mars’ moon Phobos. The
US space agency NASA is considering to assess the feasibility of sending humans to space with the first flight of the Space Launch System rocket as it aims to orbit the Moon. NASA is building
US astronaut Gene Cernan - the last man to walk on the Moon – passed away here on Monday. He was 82.
Scientists have claimed that our closest neighbour Moon is 4.51 billion years old, and was born just 60 million years after the solar system first formed. The revelation has come through a new study
Powerful solar storms can charge up the surface in frigid, permanently shadowed regions near the poles of the Moon and possibly produce "sparks" that vaporise and melt the lunar soil, a new NASA study has found.
China has speed up the development of its space industry as it set out its plans to become the first country to soft land a probe on the far side of the moon, by around 2018, and launch its first Mars probe by 2020.
In an effort to put a robot on moon, the Bengaluru-based TeamIndus has signed a commercial agreement to carry a robotic rover developed by Hakuto, the Japanese team in the Google Lunar XPRIZE, to the
The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) is planning to set up a telescope on moon as a part of enhancing its scientific observation capacity, ISRO chairman A S Kiran Kumar said. Speaking to the students
Like most of the other planets and stars in the solar system, the Moon has also seen several hits by asteroids and other space objects resulting in a complete makeover of its surface every 81,000
A subsurface ocean lies deep within Saturn's moon Dione, offering a long lived habitable zone for microbial life, suggests a new data from the Cassini mission. Two other moons of Saturn, Titan and Enceladus,
NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has spotted water vapour plumes erupting off the surface on Jupiter's moon Europa, in a possible evidence of the existence of life there. Releasing new images captured from the Hubble
In a revelation that goes contrary the understanding scientists had of the atmosphere of Saturn’s largest moon so far, NASA's Cassini spacecraft has found an outlandish mysterious ice cloud over Titan. "The appearance of
The planet Saturn has a large number of moons. It has big moons, small moons and uneven potato-shaped moons. The second innermost moon of Saturn is Pan, which is walnut-shaped and very small in
TeamIndus is the only entity from India shortlisted by Google for sending a robot to the moon
Fifty years ago, NASA’S Lunar Orbiter 1 captured the very first image of the Earth from the moon’s orbit. The photo was sent to Earth by the unmanned robotic spacecraft and was received at the
Scientists have found that some of the steep-sided canyons on Saturn's largest moon Titan are flooded with liquid hydrocarbons, based on the radar observation by NASA's Cassini spacecraft. Such features on Saturn’s largest moon
A private firm owned by an Indian-American and licensed to launch a spacecraft and land on the moon is planning to take human remains to the Earth’s surface at Rs 20 crore per kilogram.
The Federal Aviation Administration has given license to a US firm, co-founded by an Indian American, to launch a spacecraft and land on moon in 2017. The US private company revealed that this breakthrough US
The US government has given a go ahead to fly the first commercial mission to a spaceship beyond Earth’s orbit and land on the moon. The Federal Aviation Administration gave clearance Wednesday to Moon Express
The US space agency NASA has released a fascinating picture of Rhea, the second largest moon of Saturn just after Titan. The shot has been taken by its Cassini spacecraft. After Titan and Tethys which
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