The Apollo moon-landing program was a public good. It’s worth considering the economic lessons that outer space holds. read more

The Chandrayaan-2 will now spend six additional days in Earth’s orbit and 15 fewer days around the moon before it lands on the day that was originally planned, Isro scientists have said. read more

Chandrayaan 2 Launch Mission: India has mastered the complex technologies and achieved self-reliance in access to the outer space, ex-ISRO chief said, noting that barring few heavy communication satellites, all other Indian satellites were lofted by... read more

Chandrayaan 2 Launch Mission: The indigenous rover and lander on Chandrayaan 2 will be India’s first step towards robotic space exploration. read more

It all started on September 13, 1959 when Soviet probe Luna 2 smashed into Mare Imbrium, its 390 kilograms (859 pounds) of mass vaporizing, no doubt, on impact. read more

The robot has been missing since the US space agency lost contact during a dust storm in June last year and was declared officially dead Wednesday. read more

The opportunities are endless: biological experimentation; resource extraction; figuring out how to live on other planets; space travel; and tourism read more

With Elon Musk tweeting pictures of starships and NASA targeting a manned mission to the Mars one day in the distant future, the moon might seem a less exciting destination. read more

The Chang’e-4 lunar probe mission — named after the moon goddess in Chinese mythology — launched on a Long March 3B rocket from the southwestern Xichang launch centre at 2:23 am (1823 GMT), according to the official Xinhua news agency. read more

The featured doodle has been created by a school student from Mumbai who has won the Doodle4Google 2018 competition in India. Her creation was titled Galaxy, Space Exploration which is a part of this year’s theme, What inspires me?  read more

The space agency reported that MINERVA-II1 is the world’s first mobile exploration robot to land on the surface of an asteroid. read more

Space exploration has so far almost always been undertaken with the lofty ideals of decoding the mysteries of the universe and understanding the earth’s place in the larger scheme of things. Such projects have therefore been funded by governments and... read more

After pitching ideas of installing a giant air tube inside the cave complex and using his firm’s penetrating radar to dig holes to reach the boys, American tech entrepreneur Elon Musk’s latest concept is the pod. read more

Six broccoli seeds were aboard the Orbital ATK Cygnus spacecraft that launched this week from Wallops Island, Virginia, as part of a space station cargo resupply mission. Three of the seeds are travelling to space as is, while the other three were coated... read more

NASA blasted off its newest planet-hunting spacecraft, TESS, a $337 million satellite that aims to scan 85% of the skies for cosmic bodies where life may exist read more