FLORIDA: A privately built moon lander, the Peregrine, designed by space robotics firm Astrobotic, encountered a technical problem jeopardising the prospect of the first US soft lunar landing since 1972. Launched on the maiden flight of the Vulcan rocket, a collaboration between Boeing and Lockheed Martin,
WASHINGTON: India's space agency is attempting to land a spacecraft on the moon's south pole, a mission that could advance India's space ambitions and expand knowledge of lunar water ice, potentially one of the moon's most valuable resources. Here's what's known about the presence of frozen
MOSCOW: As the race to conquer space and colonise solar system planets, moons, and exoplanets is intensifying with every passing day, Russia is all set to launch its first lunar mission in 47 years — weeks after India launched its lunar mission Chandrayaan-3 towards Earth’s
Washington: NASA said it would try to launch its Moon mega-rocket in November, without committing to a precise date for the much-delayed Artemis 1 mission. The US space agency, which was forced to postpone its latest liftoff attempt due to massive Hurricane Ian which hammered Florida
Washington DC: US space agency NASA's Lucy's science team has discovered a satellite around the smallest of the mission's targets asteroids, Polymele. With occultation data, the team analyzed that the satellite was 3 miles (5 km) in diameter, orbiting Polymele, which is itself around 17 miles
New York: New images taken by NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter showed a mysterious rocket crashed into the far side of the moon, leaving behind it a double crater. NASA shared in a press release that the collision caused two overlapping impact sites. One crater measures 59