Year of the Snake 2025: Wear these colors and accessories for good luck this yearThe Year of the Wood Snake brings opportunities to embrace personal growth and thoughtful decision-making. By incorporating Feng Shui color...
08 Jan, 2025, 04.57 PM IST
A drive around the moon: How does India's Pragyan rover compare to China's Yutu-2?Compared to China’s sturdy rover, India’s probably won’t last very long. ISRO has said Pragyan has a mission life of just one lunar day, or...
24 Aug, 2023, 12.35 PM IST
Lunar New Year: History, Significance and all you need to know about the Year of the RabbitThe Lunar New Year begins on Sunday, January 22, and is one of the world's largest festivities to herald the entrance of spring.
22 Jan, 2023, 04.42 PM IST
Lander and rover of China's Chang'e 4 probe completes 1,003.9 metres of travel on far side of moonThe Chang'e-4 probe, launched on December 8, 2018, made the first-ever soft landing on the Von Karman Crater in the South Pole-Aitken Basin...
08 Jan, 2022, 05.02 PM IST
China's 'space dream': A long march to the Moon and beyondThe country has come a long way in its race to catch up with the United States and Russia, whose astronauts and cosmonauts have decades of ...
10 Feb, 2021, 08.57 PM IST
China prepares moon probe to bring back lunar rocksBeijing is pouring billions into its military-run space programme, with hopes of having a crewed space station by 2022 and of eventually se...
24 Nov, 2020, 05.30 PM IST
China's 'space dream': A Long March to the MoonBeijing has poured billions into its military-run space programme, with hopes of having a crewed space station by 2022 and of eventually se...
24 Nov, 2020, 01.09 PM IST
China to launch its first spacecraft to moon to collect samples, return to earthThe rocket, which will send the Chang'e-5 spacecraft to Earth-moon transfer orbit, is scheduled to be launched from the Wenchang Spacecraft...
23 Nov, 2020, 06.58 PM IST
Landing site of China's first lunar lander named "Moon Palace"China today named the landing site of its first moon lander Chang'e-3 as "Guang Han Gong" or "Moon Palace", more than two years after the s...
05 Jan, 2016, 06.59 PM IST
Chinese rover: Moon's geological history 'complex'In an interesting find, Chinese scientists say the Moon could have at least nine layers beneath its surface.
13 Mar, 2015, 10.29 PM IST
Moon rich ground for mining: ExpertsWith an estimated 1.6 billion tonnes of water ice at its poles and an abundance of rare-earth elements hidden below the lunar surface, expe...
03 Feb, 2015, 03.50 PM IST
China plans to send a rover to Mars by 2020China has not announced plan for a Mars probe, but Ouyang Ziyuan in China's moon probe mission, has said China plans to land a Mars rover a...
11 Nov, 2014, 08.23 PM IST
China unveils Mars rover after India's successful MangalyaanChina Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation (CASC) has displayed the machine and the technological hardware set-up at an air show.
10 Nov, 2014, 05.12 PM IST
China's moon rover back on track after facing mechanical issuesChina's moon rover, presumed dead after encountering mechanical problems on the lunar surface, has begun carrying out exploration tasks
14 Mar, 2014, 05.28 PM IST
Long lunar night wait for China's malfunctioning Jade Rabbit moon roverChina landed Jade Rabbit, named after a lunar goddess in traditional Chinese mythology, in mid-December to domestic fanfare on a mission to...
29 Jan, 2014, 10.39 AM IST
China's lunar probe observes stars, explores moonThese findings will help scientists to understand the terrain, geological structure, material composition and soil formation of the Moon.
18 Jan, 2014, 05.24 PM IST
China's first lunar probe 'Chang'e-3' enters Moon's orbitChang'e-3 probe entered the lunar orbit after about 112 hours on a Earth-Moon transfer orbit, the BACC said.
06 Dec, 2013, 07.02 PM IST