Japan plans giant 11,000-km solar ring around the Moon to send limitless energy to Earth; how futuristic project would workJapan's Shimizu Corporation proposes a colossal "Lunar Solar Ring" encircling the Moon to beam clean energy to Earth. This ambitious concep...
12 May, 2026, 03.40 PM 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
NASA reveals ambitious Moon base and nuclear Mars mission under “Ignition” planNASA has revealed an ambitious plan to build a permanent Moon base and launch a nuclear-powered spacecraft to Mars by 2028 under its “Ignit...
26 Mar, 2026, 12.22 AM IST
NASA Is Sending a Flying Robot to Another World: Here’s Why Wheels Are No Longer EnoughRobotic rovers have long explored planets. Now, flying robots are set to become the next frontier. The Dragonfly mission to Titan will use ...
09 Mar, 2026, 05.09 PM IST
Home at Moon in 10 years? Elon Musk’s plan for a self-growing lunar city sounds straight out of 'Interstellar'SpaceX self-growing lunar city: SpaceX plans a self-growing city on the Moon within ten years. This lunar focus shifts from earlier Mars am...
09 Feb, 2026, 02.05 PM IST
Why is China sending a six-legged flying robot to moon's south pole?China's Chang’e-7 mission targets the Moon's south pole to search for water using a revolutionary flying robot. This advanced detector will...
04 Feb, 2025, 05.05 PM IST
All aboard the moon train: NASA's futuristic transport system revealedNASA has unveiled plans for the first lunar railway system, vital for sustainable lunar bases envisioned by the 2030s. The system, part of ...
15 May, 2024, 09.00 PM IST
You can help Isro plan next space mission. Here are detailsIndian Space Research Organisation (Isro) is inviting the youth of India to participate in a space robotics challenge named 'Isro Robotics ...
15 Nov, 2023, 01.18 PM IST
ISRO invites innovative ideas, designs of robotic rovers from student communityISRO has invited innovative ideas and designs of robotic rovers from the youth for future missions; months after the landing of Chandrayaan...
14 Nov, 2023, 03.56 PM IST
Chandrayaan-3: Day after perfect touchdown, ISRO looks beyond the moonIndia's space agency, the Indian Space Research Organisation (Isro), has announced that it will soon begin working on a robotic path planni...
25 Aug, 2023, 07.47 AM IST
Indian-origin software and robotics engineer Amit Kshatriya to head NASA's Moon to Mars ProgrammeNASA has appointed Amit Kshatriya, an Indian-American software and robotics engineer, as the head of its newly-established Moon to Mars Pro...
31 Mar, 2023, 03.29 PM IST
Tiny robots made in Mexico to explore moon in scientific firstThe so-called nano robots developed by researchers at Mexico's National Autonomous University (UNAM) will work together like a swarm of bee...
25 Feb, 2022, 11.29 PM IST
China says lunar samples offer new clues to volcanic activityChina in December brought back the first rocks from the moon since missions by the U.S. and former Soviet Union in the 1970s. On Saturday, ...
19 Oct, 2021, 04.17 PM IST
TeamIndus signs agreement with Japan's HAKUTO to carry robotic rover to the MoonThis is a first of kind collaboration of two private space enterprises competing in the Google Lunar XPRIZE.
21 Dec, 2016, 04.43 PM IST
Rover to carry Earth's art, poetry, music to the MoonA team of international researchers has put together some of the world's best art, poetry, music, drama and dance onto small disks and plan...
05 Jul, 2015, 06.11 PM IST
NASA's 'robotic eel' to explore Jupiter's moon EuropaNASA is developing a 'robotic eel' that could explore the icy water of Jupiter's moon Europa and power itself with energy derived from loca...
10 May, 2015, 04.18 PM IST
- Google offers reward to land robot on moon
Internet search giant Google on Thursday offered 30 million dollars in prize money for companies to land a robot camera to roam on the moon...
13 Sep, 2007, 12.00 PM IST