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
ISRO organises national science meet on Chandrayaan-4 Lunar Sample Return MissionISRO organized a national meeting concerning the Chandrayaan-4 mission, which aims to bring lunar samples back to Earth. The meeting, atten...
26 Apr, 2025, 12.03 PM IST
Survey cites ISRO role in infra development, calls for large public-private partnership in sectorThe Economic Survey highlights the role of Indian Space Research Organisation's (ISRO) advanced geospatial platforms in infrastructure moni...
31 Jan, 2025, 10.18 PM IST
NASA's Mars Mission at a crossroads: Will Donald Trump’s administration fund the historic rock return from the Red Planet?NASA's Mars Sample Return mission, aimed at analyzing Martian rock samples collected by the Perseverance rover, faces a crucial decision as...
18 Jan, 2025, 08.09 PM IST
India is not far from sending astronauts to moon: Indian scientists community after Chandrayaan 4 announcementThe Indian scientific community is optimistic about sending a cosmonaut to the moon following the Union cabinet's approval of India's fourt...
19 Sep, 2024, 07.27 AM IST
NASA hasn't found life on Mars, but it's very excited about this rockNASA’s Perseverance rover has discovered a rock, Cheyava Falls, on Mars that may hold clues to past life, though scientists emphasize no li...
26 Jul, 2024, 09.07 AM IST
Chinese scientists find traces of water in lunar soil brought by Chang'e-5 missionBased on lunar soil samples returned by Chang'e-5 mission in 2020, Chinese scientists have found a hydrated mineral "enriched" with molecul...
24 Jul, 2024, 05.10 PM IST
Isro planning a bigger, more challenging Chandrayaan-4. Here is India's ambitious planThe Chandrayaan-4 spacecraft will travel to the moon, land, collect samples, and then connect to another module in space. The module will t...
21 Nov, 2023, 01.20 PM IST
ISRO working on ambitious lunar missions LUPEX, Chandrayaan-4: OfficialThe Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) is working on two lunar exploration missions following the successful soft-landing of Chandra...
17 Nov, 2023, 05.03 PM IST
NASA's Spacecraft to drop first-ever asteroid sample on Earth in Utah Desert | Where to watch & moreInitiated in 2016 and reaching asteroid Bennu in 2018, NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft embarked on an ambitious mission: to gather a sample of...
24 Sep, 2023, 06.47 PM IST
China's space probe brought 1,731 grams of samples from the moonScientists will carry out the storage, analysis and research of the country's first samples collected from the extra-terrestrial object, th...
19 Dec, 2020, 01.51 PM IST
China's Chang'e-5 mission a success, spacecraft brings home first moon samples in 40 yearsThe spacecraft landed in Siziwang Banner in north China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, at 1:59 AM (local time), according to the China...
17 Dec, 2020, 10.17 AM IST
China's Chang'e-5 completes first orbital correction en route to EarthThe Chang'e-5 probe, comprising an orbiter, a lander, an ascender and a returner was launched on November 24, and its lander-ascender combi...
14 Dec, 2020, 04.27 PM IST
What has Japan's Hayabusa2 mission accomplished?Launched on Dec. 3, 2014, the unmanned Hayabusa2 spacecraft touched down twice on the asteroid Ryugu, more than 300 million kilometres (190...
07 Dec, 2020, 05.34 PM IST
China successfully launches its first spacecraft to moon to collect samples, return to earthChina has successfully launched the Chang'e-5 lunar probe from the Wenchang Spacecraft Launch Site in the southern province of Hainan, stat...
24 Nov, 2020, 10.29 AM IST
- NASA to send probe to Titan or a comet by 2025
Washington, Dec 21 (IANS) NASA has picked two concepts for a solar system mission planned to launch in the mid-2020s -- a comet sample retu...
21 Dec, 2017, 11.22 AM IST
- 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...
21 Nov, 2017, 12.12 PM IST