Moon
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Scientists pinpoint the exact age of Moon and it’s older than we thought
World | Jan 13, 2017, 06:09 PM ISTScientists have claimed that our closest neighbour Moon is 4.51 billion years old, and was born just 60 million years after the solar system first formed. The revelation has come through a new study
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Solar storms could trigger sparks and melt soil on Moon: NASA
World | Jan 09, 2017, 02:41 PM ISTPowerful solar storms can charge up the surface in frigid, permanently shadowed regions near the poles of the Moon and possibly produce "sparks" that vaporise and melt the lunar soil, a new NASA study has found.
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China plans to land probes on Moon and Mars by 2020
World | Dec 28, 2016, 06:51 PM ISTChina has speed up the development of its space industry as it set out its plans to become the first country to soft land a probe on the far side of the moon, by around 2018, and launch its first Mars probe by 2020.
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Bengaluru-Based TeamIndus ties up with Japan's Hakuto to carry Rover to Moon
Dec 21, 2016, 11:36 PM ISTIn an effort to put a robot on moon, the Bengaluru-based TeamIndus has signed a commercial agreement to carry a robotic rover developed by Hakuto, the Japanese team in the Google Lunar XPRIZE, to the
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ISRO exploring possibilities for setting up telescope on moon
India | Oct 15, 2016, 11:10 AM ISTThe Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) is planning to set up a telescope on moon as a part of enhancing its scientific observation capacity, ISRO chairman A S Kiran Kumar said. Speaking to the students
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Moon gets a complete 'makeover' every 81,000 years, reveals study of NASA data
World | Oct 13, 2016, 02:15 PM ISTLike most of the other planets and stars in the solar system, the Moon has also seen several hits by asteroids and other space objects resulting in a complete makeover of its surface every 81,000
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NASA’s Cassini finds subsurface ocean lying deep within Saturn's moon Dione
World | Oct 06, 2016, 06:46 PM ISTA subsurface ocean lies deep within Saturn's moon Dione, offering a long lived habitable zone for microbial life, suggests a new data from the Cassini mission. Two other moons of Saturn, Titan and Enceladus,
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Life spotted? NASA's Hubble telescope finds water vapour plumes on Jupiter's largest moon Europa ( Video )
World | Sep 27, 2016, 12:16 PM ISTNASA's Hubble Space Telescope has spotted water vapour plumes erupting off the surface on Jupiter's moon Europa, in a possible evidence of the existence of life there. Releasing new images captured from the Hubble
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NASA’s Cassini spots mysterious ice cloud over Saturn's moon Titan
World | Sep 22, 2016, 04:47 PM ISTIn a revelation that goes contrary the understanding scientists had of the atmosphere of Saturn’s largest moon so far, NASA's Cassini spacecraft has found an outlandish mysterious ice cloud over Titan. "The appearance of
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See Pic! NASA's Cassini spacecraft captures THIS incredible image of Saturn's smallest moon ‘Pan’
World | Sep 20, 2016, 11:00 AM ISTThe planet Saturn has a large number of moons. It has big moons, small moons and uneven potato-shaped moons. The second innermost moon of Saturn is Pan, which is walnut-shaped and very small in
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Google shortlists Indian team to send robot to the moon
India | Sep 14, 2016, 02:05 PM ISTTeamIndus is the only entity from India shortlisted by Google for sending a robot to the moon
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See Pics! 50 years ago, NASA spacecraft captured this first-ever image of Earth from the moon
World | Aug 25, 2016, 04:28 PM ISTFifty years ago, NASA’S Lunar Orbiter 1 captured the very first image of the Earth from the moon’s orbit. The photo was sent to Earth by the unmanned robotic spacecraft and was received at the
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VIDEO! NASA's Cassini spacecraft finds flooded canyons on Saturn's moon Titan
World | Aug 11, 2016, 02:18 PM ISTScientists have found that some of the steep-sided canyons on Saturn's largest moon Titan are flooded with liquid hydrocarbons, based on the radar observation by NASA's Cassini spacecraft. Such features on Saturn’s largest moon
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Indian-American to launch spacecraft that will take human remains to moon at Rs 20 cr per kg
World | Aug 10, 2016, 08:48 AM ISTA private firm owned by an Indian-American and licensed to launch a spacecraft and land on the moon is planning to take human remains to the Earth’s surface at Rs 20 crore per kilogram.
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Spacecraft of private US company co-founded by Indian-American to land on moon in 2017
India | Aug 04, 2016, 01:39 PM ISTThe Federal Aviation Administration has given license to a US firm, co-founded by an Indian American, to launch a spacecraft and land on moon in 2017. The US private company revealed that this breakthrough US
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US government approves first commercial mission to moon
World | Aug 04, 2016, 07:10 AM ISTThe US government has given a go ahead to fly the first commercial mission to a spaceship beyond Earth’s orbit and land on the moon. The Federal Aviation Administration gave clearance Wednesday to Moon Express
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See picture! NASA releases this amazing image of second largest moon of Saturn taken by Cassini spacecraft
World | Aug 09, 2016, 11:48 AM ISTThe US space agency NASA has released a fascinating picture of Rhea, the second largest moon of Saturn just after Titan. The shot has been taken by its Cassini spacecraft. After Titan and Tethys which
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Meet the first man who ‘peed’ on moon! He is not Neil Armstrong
Blah | Jul 15, 2016, 06:45 PM ISTNew Delhi: It’s been 47 years when astronaut Neil Armstrong made history by becoming the first man ever to walk on the moon. In fact, Neil created several more records that day, from being the
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Saturn’s moon Titan can possibly support life, even without water: study
World | Jul 11, 2016, 07:28 AM ISTA new study by scientists at Cornell University indicates that the chemical composition found on Saturn’s biggest moon Titan might breed life even without water.
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Bangalore-based start-up will let young minds design an experiment for its mission to the moon
India | Jun 30, 2016, 08:24 AM ISTBengaluru: TeamIndus,a city-based space technology startup which is competing for the Google Lunar XPrize on Wednesday announced the launch of Lab2Moon, a competition of its own. The startup has launched a competition to challenge the