Spacecraft

Artemis 1: Maiden flight of spacecraft set to take humans back to the Moon – here’s what needs to go right

Project Artemis, the namesake of the sister of Apollo and daughter of Zeus in ancient Greek mythology, is designed to establish a long-term human presence on our nearest celestial neighbour, and to ultimately explore even further afield

Parker Solar Probe: NASA Spacecraft touches corona of the sun; all you need to know

The spacecraft plunged through the unexplored solar atmosphere known as the corona of the Sun. It made its way through an extreme environment which is roughly 2 million degrees Fahrenheit.

Chandrayaan 2 orbiter completed over 9,000 orbits around the moon in two years: ISRO chief

Chairman of Apex Science Board, ISRO, A S Kiran Kumar said the imaging and scientific instruments on board the satellite have been providing excellent data.

Boeing continues to have trouble with Starliner spacecraft's propulsion system

It needs to have a successful uncrewed test flight before flying humans but it remains unclear when the next test flight will be scheduled.

Blue Origins welcomes bids for one seat on its first passenger flight to space

The bidding for the seat, which began on Wednesday, will conclude with a live auction on 12 June.

SuperCam on-board NASA's Perseverance rover collected its first samples on Mars

The laser can zap objects smaller than a pencil point as far away as seven metres and observes spots beyond the reach of the rover's arm.

Scientists use New Horizon to find number of galaxies from glow of the universe

The ‘leftover glow’ is coming from some dwarf galaxies that are present in the nearby universe “just beyond detectability”

Soyuz MS-17 spacecraft reaches ISS as NASA astronaut Kate Rubins makes her second trip

The spacecraft left for the space station from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at 11:15 am IST and reached ISS three hours later.

China quietly tests launch, recovery of reusable spacecraft tech in secretive two-day test flight

The description of the reusable spacecraft matches China's plans of launching a similar spacecraft three years ago.

Earth's magnetic field anomaly over the Atlantic has split in two, now expanding westward: NASA

The anomaly’s 'valley' – the area that had the weakest magnetic field strength – has split into two lobes, the agency has said.