NASA has reported that the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) spacecraft had found evidence that the Moon’s subsurface might have greater quantities of metals such as iron and titanium than thought before. The metallic distribution was observed by the Miniature Radio Frequency (Mini-RF) instrument ...

The Government of India has approved far reaching reforms in the Space sector aimed at boosting the private sector participation in the entire range of space activities. The decision taken is in line with the long-term vision of the Prime Minister of transforming India and making the country ...

Through 153 nights, 17 scientists from 9 countries in Europe and Asia including researchers from Aryabhatta Research Institute of Observational Sciences (ARIES), Nainital took 2263 image frames and observed the changes in a very high energy gamma-ray emitting blazar ‘1ES 0806+524’ using seven ...

Saturn's largest moon Titan is now expanding from Saturn at a rate 100 times faster than scientists had previously predicted as reported by a new study. This speed of drifting is about 4 inches every year. Titan was born close to the planet. But over the course of 4.5 billion years, Titan has ...

American space agency NASA is working on the Artemis program that aims to land humans on the moon by 2024. The space agency has put forward a plan showing what a US lunar presence may look like after the milestone. NASA submitted a 13-page report to the National Space Council on 2 April. Daily ...

SpaceX just released a users' guide for Starship, the reusable spaceship-rocket combo the company is developing to help colonize Mars. As the guide makes clear, Starship is designed to be a flexible transportation system, one capable of delivering both people and payloads to a variety of off-Earth ...

NASA has selected the proposed Sun Radio Interferometer Space Experiment (SunRISE) mission to study how the Sun creates and releases Giant Solar Particle Storms. This mission will further aid scientists to understand how the Solar System works. It will also help protect future astronauts from ...

Elon Musk’s SpaceX will send astronauts to the International Space Station (ISS) for the first time in May 2020. The tech entrepreneur’s company will launch a Falcon 9 rocket to transport NASA astronauts Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley in a first for the space agency as it looks to cut costs. Musk’s ...

Astronomers have discovered an extremely brutal exoplanet where the atmosphere is so rich in iron that it literally rains down from the sky. Scientists have discovered that the local weather conditions include 2,400C temperatures, winds in excess of 10,000mph and a steady pelting of iron rain. ...

Astronomers have discovered the biggest explosion seen since the begining of the universe, originating from a super-massive black hole. The blast is the biggest explosion seen since the Big Bang — the cosmologial model to describe a rapid expansion of matter and energy that created the observable ...