NASA has launched five payloads to the Moon aboard Astrobotic's Peregrine lander, marking the inaugural mission under NASA's CLPS initiativ...

Four years ago, India launched its Chandrayaan-2 mission to deepen humans' understanding of the Moon. Though the Vikram lander did not succ...

These observations provide insight on the dynamics of the lunar exospheric species, as well as on the radiogenic activities in the first fe...

Earlier this week, ISRO opened up its scientific discussions on Lunar Science to "the people of the country, to engage the Indian academia,...

To further strengthen the Indian research community for lunar science studies, Chandrayaan-2 orbiter payloads data are made available to pu...

"Though the soft-landing attempt (of the lander carrying the rover) was not successful, the orbiter, which was equipped with eight scientif...

Lander Vikram, with rover Pragyan housed inside it,lost communication with ground station on September 7 during its final descent

The 2,379 kg orbiter whose mission life was designed to be one year would now be able to function for almost seven years.

Chandrayaan-2 will circle and study the Moon remotely for a year, safely from the lunar orbit.

"The orbiter is healthy, intact, functioning normally and safely in the Lunar orbit," the official told PTI.

On Monday, Isro carried out another flawless operation to separate the landing module (Vikram & Pragyan) from the orbiter.

All spacecraft parameters are normal, the Bengaluru headquartered space agency said after the maneuver on the spacecraft.

The most challenging part of the ambitious venture would come on September 7 when the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) will try so...

As ISRO scientists started firing Chandrayaan-2's onboard liquid engine to put the spacecraft in an orbit around the Moon, Sivan said "our ...

The six-wheeled rover will move around the landing site on the lunar surface in a semi-autonomous mode as decided by the ground commands.

The experts had met recently and suggested the tests, following which the mission will now be launched in October, Indian Space Research Or...

A dense atmosphere like Earth's is relatively rare in our solar system because an object has to be sufficiently massive to have enough grav...