SpaceX carries out mostly successful Starship test flightSpaceX's Starship spacecraft splashed down into the Indian Ocean Friday after the company performed a mostly successful test flight of the ...
23 May, 2026, 07.19 AM IST
Race to the Moon: Power, politics and the new space orderA new space race is unfolding as the United States and China compete for lunar dominance. Both nations are pushing for crewed Moon landings...
17 Apr, 2026, 12.09 PM IST
Artemis II is a triumph, but NASA’s ‘most ambitious’ mission carrying possible evidences of life may never returnNASA's ambitious Mars Sample Return mission plans to bring Martian rocks and soil to Earth. This project seeks to understand if Mars was, i...
11 Apr, 2026, 10.28 AM IST
Splashdown of Artemis II astronauts concludes 10-day moon missionThe Artemis II mission has successfully concluded. Its capsule and four astronauts returned safely to Earth after a nearly 10-day journey. ...
11 Apr, 2026, 06.08 AM IST
Artemis II crew reaches the moon as it approaches record-breaking distance from EarthNASA's Artemis II mission has propelled its astronauts into the moon’s gravitational field, embarking on an extraordinary adventure that wi...
06 Apr, 2026, 04.58 PM IST
China lands spacecraft on Mars in latest advance for its space programPlans call for a rover to stay in the lander for a few days of diagnostic tests before rolling down a ramp to explore an icy area of Mars k...
15 May, 2021, 10.31 AM IST
NASA exchanges data of its Mars mission with India, China, UAE & European Space AgencyThe purpose of exchanges was to lower the risk of a collision, as their spacecraft are orbiting the red planet, Hong Kong-based South China...
31 Mar, 2021, 03.55 PM IST
US, China consulted on safety as their crafts headed to MarsChina's National Space Agency confirmed Wednesday that it had working-level meetings and communications with NASA from January to March "to...
31 Mar, 2021, 02.04 PM IST
China releases high-resolution images of Mars from its Tianwen-1 probeThe panchromatic images were taken by the high-resolution camera of China's spacecraft, Tianwen-1 meaning Questions to Heaven, at a distanc...
04 Mar, 2021, 11.18 AM IST
China's Mars craft enters parking orbit before landing roverThe China National Space Administration said the spacecraft executed a maneuver to adjust its orbit early Wednesday morning Beijing time an...
24 Feb, 2021, 11.38 AM IST
Chinese spacecraft enters Mars orbit, becomes world's second in two daysThe orbiter-rover combo became the second spacecraft in two days to reach the red planet. An orbiter from the United Arab Emirates led the ...
10 Feb, 2021, 07.03 PM IST
Chinese spacecraft set for Mars landing in May: State mediaIn 2003, China became the third country to put a man in space with its own rocket after the former Soviet Union and the United States. Chin...
29 Oct, 2020, 03.34 PM IST
Earth is looking to invade Mars with a fleet of spacecraft from US, China and UAEThe 3 countries are sending spacecraft to the red planet beginning this week.
13 Jul, 2020, 04.19 PM IST
Look out, Mars: Here we come with a fleet of spacecraftThree countries — the United States, China and the United Arab Emirates — are sending unmanned spacecraft to the red planet in quick succes...
13 Jul, 2020, 01.43 PM IST
China's Mars probe to carry 13 types of payloadsChina plans to send a spacecraft to orbit, land and deploy a rover on Mars in 2020. The probe will be launched on a Long March-5 carrier ro...
20 Sep, 2017, 06.57 PM IST
City scientists laud India's maiden success in placing Mars spacecraft in orbit by ISROLeading scientists of the city lauded the country's successful attempt in placing its low-cost Mars spacecraft in orbit around the Red Plan...
24 Sep, 2014, 05.58 PM IST
India's Mars mission crosses half the distanceIhe Indian space mission to Mars today crossed half the total distance to the red planet from Earth and was very much along the designated ...
09 Apr, 2014, 04.02 PM IST