Japan has launched a landmark mission to collect rock and soil samples from Phobos, one of Mars’s two moons, in a bid to unravel the origins of the Martian moons and gain new insights into the R...
Phobos and Deimos are the only two natural satellites of Mars. Both are relatively small and have irregular shapes A Japanese space mission is set to lift off on October 20 with an ambitious goal: col...
Pakistan sets 2035 Moon landing target as space programme expands, minister says (representative image) Pakistan aims to land on the Moon by 2035 as it expands its space programme, planning minister A...
More than 50 years after the first crewed moon landing, Jeff Bezos has a straightforward explanation for why returning to the lunar surface remains so difficult. The Amazon founder says the United Sta...
About 4.25 billion years ago, the Moon possessed a powerful core dynamo with a field strength comparable to or even exceeding modern Earth’s. This magnetic field, generated by circulating molten...
The makers of ‘Jailer 2’ have unveiled the promo for the film’s second single, adding another music update to the promotional campaign ahead of Rajinikanth’s much-awaited return as Muthuve...
A student’s guide to September’s full moon The American naturalist Hal Borland once argued that anyone who wished for a full moon every single night would end up missing the actual rhythm ...
The proposed ‘US Space Academy’ intends to strengthen the nation’s space workforce and develop the next generation of space leaders (Photo: Nasa). US President Donald Trump signed an executive order o...
In 1971, Apollo 15 astronauts found an unusual white rock on the Moon (Image Credit: NASA) When Apollo 15 astronauts David Scott and James Irwin explored the Moon in 1971, they were looking for rocks ...
The Moon has been romanticised for centuries, but few people have ever tried to give someone a piece of it. In 2002, that idea became part of an extraordinary theft at Nasa’s Johnson Space Center, whe...