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India's satcom sector to take off as IN-SPACe allows Indian players access to international orbital data
Previously, Indian satellite players — an industry still very much in its nascent stage — were cons…
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ISRO announces plans to make India the third country to reach Mars, draws inspiration from NASA’s probes
ISRO is all set for the historic Mangalyaan-2 mission where the space agency will land a rover and …
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"Welcome, buddy!" Chandrayaan-2 orbiter greets Chandrayaan-3 lander as they establish communication
In a significant development, the Chandrayaan-2 orbiter which was already fixed around the moon est…
ANI
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India successfully orbits 2 Singapore satellites (Ld)
Sriharikota (Andhra Pradesh)India on Saturday successfully placed into orbit TeLEOS-2 and Lumilite-…
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China lands its secretive space plane after 9 months in orbit
The mysterious "experimental" space plane could be a round-trip vehicle for "peaceful" use of outer…
Natalie Musumeci,Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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ISRO receives Indo-US jointly developed NISAR satellite
NISAR, an Earth-observation satellite, is being jointly developed by the National Aeronautics and S…
ANI
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NASA now has an instrument orbiting Earth that can see major air pollutants across North America, tracing them down to an exact neighborhood
NASA first launched the instrument, known as TEMPO, on a SpaceX rocket in April. It will begin repo…
Katie Hawkinson
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NASA images show a meteor crashed into Mars, triggered a big quake, and kicked up surprise water ice
NASA's InSight lander detected an unusual quake on Mars. Then the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter spott…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen,Marianne Guenot,Paola Rosa-Aquino
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A second Earth-sized world orbiting a dwarf star discovered by scientists
Using data from NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite, scientists have identified an Earth-s…
ANI
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NASA faces orbital debris threat, greatest challenge of our era
NASA takes the threat of orbital debris seriously as these objects can endanger spacecraft, jeopard…
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China's Mars spacecraft has photographed the entire red planet, state media says
China's space agency released sharp images, revealing Mars craters, a volcano, and a canyon that's …
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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China's collection of lunar samples enters Moon-Earth transfer orbit on its way back to the planet
The orbiter-returner combination of China's Chang'e-5 lunar probe conducted its second orbital mano…
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A secret Russian satellite has broken apart in orbit, creating a cloud of debris that could last a century
Russia kept the Kosmos 2499 satellite's mission a secret, even after its bizarre maneuvers drew att…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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Watch SpaceX launch 4 space tourists into Earth's orbit
The Inspiration4 crew members have never been to space. They've only trained for five months. Their…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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NASA's James Webb Space Telescope detects water vapor on hot, Jupiter-sized planet orbiting a distant star
NASA's new telescope is already peering into the atmospheres of planets orbiting other stars. This …
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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To fix the Hubble Space Telescope, NASA may have to rely on a computer that hasn't turned on since 2009
Hubble engineers thought the issue was an old memory module. But that was just a symptom of the rea…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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NASA has now tried and failed to fix the Hubble Space Telescope 3 times. It's been offline for a week.
Hubble is hibernating to protect its scientific instruments while NASA troubleshoots the computer t…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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A sun-skimming spacecraft captured video of a massive plasma eruption on the solar surface for the first time
The sun's outbursts can send plasma and electrically charged particles careening toward Earth. This…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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After 10 years of trying, NASA finally bounced its first-ever laser beam off the lunar orbiter
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has been bouncing lasers off the Moon sinc…
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Astra CEO says space will be the next big platform as more satellites take orbit, but we need some regulations to avoid chaos
Astra CEO Chris Kemp said the space industry is on the verge of becoming as ubiquitous as the inter…