September 2, 2023 12:40 pm
NEW DELHI, Sept 2: India launched its first space mission to study the sun on Saturday, less than two weeks after a successful uncrewed landing near the south polar region of the moon.
May 20, 2023 11:28 am
WASHINGTON, May 19: A team led by Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin won a coveted $3.4 billion NASA contract to build a spacecraft to fly astronauts to and from the moon's surface, the U.S. space agency said on Friday, a breakthrough for the company two years after it lost out to Elon Musk's SpaceX in another competition.
September 27, 2022 14:00 pm
A NASA spacecraft rammed an asteroid at blistering speed Monday in an unprecedented dress rehearsal for the day a killer rock menaces Earth.
September 29, 2020 15:45 pm
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates, Sept 29: A top official in the United Arab Emirates said Tuesday his country plans to send an unmanned spacecraft to the moon in 2024.
July 23, 2020 16:00 pm
BEIJING, July 23: China has launched a Mars probe on Thursday, aiming to complete orbiting, landing and roving in one mission, and taking the first step in its planetary exploration of the solar system, the state-run Xinhua News Agency reported.
July 22, 2019 12:15 pm
SRIHARIKOTA, July 22: India is ready to launch an unmanned spacecraft to the far side of the moon on Monday a week after aborting the mission due to a technical problem.
October 20, 2018 10:08 am
TOKYO, Oct 20 : European and Japanese space agencies said an Ariane 5 rocket successfully lifted a spacecraft carrying two probes into orbit Saturday for a joint mission to Mercury, the closest planet to the sun.
July 23, 2018 10:25 am
US space agency NASA is preparing to launch a probe in August to study the Sun closer than any human-made object ever has, revealing multiple mysteries behind the star.
April 5, 2017 17:13 pm
WASHINGTON, April 5: NASA is preparing to send its long-lived Cassini probe into the unexplored region between Saturn and its rings for a scientific grand finale before the spacecraft’s suicidal plunge into the planet, space officials said on Tuesday.
January 25, 2017 23:10 pm
Five teams have qualified to compete in a $30 million Google-backed competition to land and operate robotic spacecraft on the surface of the moon, the XPrize Foundation said on Tuesday.
July 5, 2016 14:40 pm
PASADENA, Calif, July 5: Braving intense radiation, a NASA spacecraft reached Jupiter on Monday after a five-year voyage to begin exploring the king of the planets.