Space Exploration

The Indian space agency has released a new set of pictures of impact craters on moon surface taken by its Chandrayaan-2 Orbiter.The Indian Space Research Organisation (#ISRO) on Tuesday, while releasing a picture on its Twitter handle,…

The scientists, led by Alexandra Doyle, a UCLA graduate student of geochemistry and astrochemistry, developed a new method to analyze in detail the geochemistry of planets outside of our solar system. Doyle did so by analyzing the…

The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) on Monday released the first illuminated images of the lunar surface which were captured by #Chandrayaan2’s Imaging Infrared Spectrometer (IIRS) payload.ISRO released the images on its…

NASA #astronauts Christina Koch and Jessica Meir have made history by embarking on the first-ever all-female #spacewalk, conducting a service task of replacing a damaged battery outside the International Space Station. The historic moment…

Astronomers have used a massive cluster of galaxies as an X-ray magnifying glass to peer back in time, to nearly 9.4 billion years ago. In the process, they spotted a tiny dwarf galaxy in its very first, high-energy stages of star…

If you could travel back in time 3.5 billion years, what would #Mars look like? The picture is evolving among scientists working with NASA's #Curiosity rover.Imagine ponds dotting the floor of Gale Crater, the 100-mile-wide…

That's the finding arising from research conducted by a team of scientists led by Professor Joss Bland-Hawthorn from Australia's ARC Centre of Excellence for All-Sky Astrophysics in 3 Dimensions (ASTRO 3D) and soon to be published…

Move over Jupiter; Saturn is the new moon king. A team has found 20 new moons orbiting Saturn. This brings the ringed planet's total number of moons to 82, surpassing Jupiter, which has 79.

#NASA astronomers have used data from the #Voyager probes to measure the bustle of particles rippling at the very edge of our Solar System, and discovered the pressure in the distant borderlands of our star is higher than they expected. …

A Russian cosmonaut and two US astronauts arrived Friday at the International Space Station aboard a Russian #Soyuz spacecraft, five months after the failed launch of a rocket carrying two of the passengers.NASA #astronaut Nick Hague…