Moon

We can scatter our ashes on the moon. But should we?

As moon exploration becomes increasingly privatised and commercial, you can send your favourite things, including the ashes of a loved one, to the lunar surface. But what does that mean — from both a legal and ethical standpoint?

Japan’s Moon Sniper lunar lander makes a precise landing despite last-minute engine scare

Japan is now the fifth nation to perform a soft landing on the Moon, joining the United States, the Soviet Union, China, and India. The unmanned SLIM, nicknamed the "Moon Sniper" for its precision technology, successfully touched down within 55 meters of its targeted landing spot

All about world’s second private Moon mission and its India connection

The US space robotics firm Astrobotic launched its Peregrine lunar lander into orbit aboard a Vulcan rocket from Cape Canaveral around 12.45 pm on Monday. Dr Sharad Bhaskaran, who is of Indian origin, is the mission director of the lander

China's Suspicious Move: Booster rocket that crashed into Moon in 2022 was carrying top-secret payload

China has always had a clandestine or mysterious nature to the way they carried out their space missions. In a recent mission, China sent a suspicious payload to the moon, not disclosing what it does and what was its purpose

Galactic Bizarre: 86 YO physics professor to send DNA to the Moon to have himself cloned by aliens

Like intergalactic space, the human tendency to do something bizarre is obky bounded by how fare do certain people dare to go. Not satisfied with the option of having their ashes spread on the moon, a 86 YO man wants to send his live DNA to the moon, hoping he gets cloned by aliens

What are the huge mysterious blobs near Earth’s core?

Researchers have proposed that the two mysterious blobs found deep near the Earth's centre could be the remnants of a protoplanet called Theia. It had a massive impact on Earth billions of years ago and also produced our Moon

Mars-sized early planet that crashed into Earth, created the Moon, has been stuck deep inside the planet

A Chinese research team studied massive masses of material buried beneath the African continent and the Pacific Ocean and found that Theia, the planet that crashed into Earth billions of years ago, and created the Moon, may be stuck inside Earth

In Graphics | What happens during a partial lunar eclipse?

A partial lunar eclipse will be visible across India and other parts of the world on the intervening night of 28 and 29 October. Let’s understand how it occurs and why the Moon appears a distinct reddish colour, also known as the ‘blood Moon’

Aim for Indian space station by 2035, Indian on Moon by 2040: PM Modi to scientists

During the meeting, the prime minister outlined the future of India's space exploration endeavours and urged scientists to work towards interplanetary missions, including a Venus Orbiter Mission and a Mars Lander

End of Mission? What happens to Vikram lander and Pragyan rover now?

Despite several attempts, Chandrayaan-3’s Pragyan rover and Vikram lander did not wake up when the sun rose on the lunar surface on 20 September. Now it’s night on the moon again. Is this the end of India’s moon experiment?