Moon

Chennai, Aug 20 (IANS) As Chandrayaan-2 entered the lunar orbit on Tuesday, the scientists of Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) heaved a sigh of relief and prepared for the next major step in the moon mission -- separation of the…

Chennai, Aug 20 (IANS) The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) will not have time to rest after its first moon landing mission Chandrayaan-2 as it has a busy schedule ahead that includes inter-planetary missions, building a space…

Chennai, Aug 19 (IANS) India's second spacecraft to the moon, Chandrayaan-2, will be inserted into the lunar orbit on Tuesday morning, the Indian space agency said. According to Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), by firing…

Washington, Aug 8 (IANS) As NASA plans to return astronauts to the moon and ultimately send humans to Mars, teams across the space agency are working to build solutions for protecting the travellers from harmful radiation.Some teams are…

Washington, Aug 5 (IANS) Earth's Moon and Mercury, the closest planet to the Sun, may have far more water ice than previously thought, new evidence suggests."If confirmed, this potential reservoir of frozen water on the Moon may be…

NPnews24 Online: India’s latest and most ambitious deep-space mission, Chandrayaan 2 launched on July 22 from ISRO Launchpad at Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Sriharikota. https://twitter.com/isro/status/1155784782753611776 Since then,…

NIKHIL BORKAR, NPnews24 Online: The much-awaited countdown for the launch of Chandrayaan-2 mission become successful at 2:43 PM evening. India’s second mission to the moon came with some technical glitch on July 15, but it became…

Washington, July 22 (IANS) As the world marked the 50th anniversary of the first Moon landing, the US space agency said it has doubled down on its next giant leap with the Artemis programme that would take "the first woman and the next man"…

New Delhi, July 19 (IANS) On July 20, 1969, American astronauts Neil Armstrong and Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin became the first humans ever to land on the Moon aboard the Apollo 11 mission -- an extraordinary feat celebrated by Google with a Doodle…

New Delhi, July 15 ((IANS) With India postponing the Chandrayaan-2 launch owing to technical snag in the 'Bahubali' rocket about an hour before it was to take off on Monday morning, people on social media said it is better late than never.…