Why does Jupiter have 95 moons and Earth only one? Why moons are not pulled in by sun? Mystery unraveled, details hereJupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune are much larger than Earth, Mars, Mercury and Venus and they have larger Hill sphere radii. They are al...
Watch stunning photographs of Martian moon Phobos, NASA makes startling revelationsNASA released a spectacular photo of Phobos, a moon of Mars that is approaching a slow collision with the planet. This moon, which was form...
Message of an eclipseEclipses must be occurring on all planets with their respective moons. They may have different formats and frequencies, but their message i...
Planned for six months, India's Mars mission Mangalyaan completes five yearsThe Mars orbiter has sent thousands of pictures totalling two terabytes, an Indian Space Research Organisation (IRSO) official explained.
India's Mars Orbiter Mission completes four years in orbit: ISROAlthough the designed mission life of MOM was six months, the satellite has continued to beam back science data from Mars for the past four...
- Japan-led probe to Martian moons to carry NASA instrument
Washington, Nov 21 (IANS) NASA will send an instrument to study the Martian moons Phobos and Deimos on a Japan-led sample return mission to...
- Hubble captures tiny Martian moon Phobos
Washington, July 21 (IANS) In a rare encounter, NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has captured Phobos - one of the moons of Mars - which is a f...
- Hubble captures tiny Martian moon Phobos
Washington, July 21 (IANS) In a rare encounter, NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has captured Phobos - one of the moons of Mars - which is a f...
TeamIndus confident that it will soft land on moon by 2017Narayan shares with his experience of listening to Dr Buzz Aldrin (second man on the moon), on places he would like to visit in the galaxy ...
TeamIndus converted Nandan Nilekani into its investor after a one-hour meeting!Today, TeamIndus is confident that it will soft land on the moon by the end of 2017.
NASA wants you to work on Mars!Earlier this year, the agency released a set of prints promoting space tourism. They can all be downloaded for free from the NASA website.
Mars to lose its largest moon, Phobos, but gain a ringThe resulting rubble from Phobos - rocks of various sizes and a lot of dust - would continue to orbit Mars and quickly distribute themselve...
Stepwise approach may land NASA astronauts on MarsNASA may be able to land astronauts on Mars cost-effectively by 2039 if the US space agency takes a stepwise approach.
NASA's manned mission to Mars possible by 2039Sending astronauts to Mars is the top long-term priority of NASA's human-spaceflight programme.
Pluto's moons exhibit the strangest behavior that scientists have ever seenThere are plenty of odd-shaped moons in the solar system such as the moons of Mars (Phobos and Deimos) or Saturn's sponge-shaped moon Hyper...
NASA spacecraft finds mysterious dust cloud on MarsThe presence of the dust at orbital altitudes from about 150 kilometres to 300 kilometres above the surface was not predicted, NASA said.
We are not engaged in space race with China: ISROThe MOM would be launched onboard PSLV C25 on November 5 from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre in the spaceport of Sriharikota.