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ISRO’s ambitious lineup of missions include Chandrayaan-4, Chandrayaan-5 and Gaganyaan — likely within the end of this decade!
India is launching ambitious space missions. Chandrayaan-4 will collect lunar samples. Chandrayaan-…
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ISRO's Chandrayaan-3 moon mission continues to uncover lunar treasures at Shiv Shakti point
ISRO has reported that the Pragyan rover has observed small rock fragments scattered around the rim…
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India set to celebrate first National Space Day on August 23
India is set to celebrate it's first National Space Day on August 23, 2024.
ANI
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"A glorious moment for all Indians when Chandrayaan landed on moon" says President Murmu on National Space Day
President Droupadi Murmu, on Friday visits an exhibition to showcase space technologies and achieve…
ANI
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National Space Day: Here’s the beginner’s guide to astrophotography and sky watching in India
Ever wanted to capture the cosmos? There's no better time than India's first-ever National Space Da…
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India wants to fly its own astronauts to the moon, after becoming the first nation to land near the lunar south pole
India's prime minister confirmed plans to send people to the moon as the nation celebrated the hist…
Marianne Guenot
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India's moon lander detected movement near the lunar south pole. It could be the first signs of a moonquake in nearly 50 years.
India is the first country to land near the lunar south pole. Shortly after touchdown, the lander d…
Grace Eliza Goodwin,Jessica O…
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Russia is racing to beat the US, India, and China to the south pole of the moon in its first lunar mission since the 70s
Russia hasn't launched a lunar mission since 1976. It hopes to be the first to carry out a soft lan…
Marianne Guenot
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India's moon lander is the first to study the lunar south pole region up close. Here are 5 scientific discoveries it has already made.
India's Vikram lander and Pragyan rover have already discovered evidence of moonquakes and the pres…
Grace Eliza Goodwin
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Chandrayaan-3 most significant milestone for planetary exploration: former ISRO chief
The scheduled timing for the soft landing of Chandrayaan-3 on the moon's south pole on August 23, 2…
ANI
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Chandrayaan-3 undergoes last Moon-bound maneouvre, prepares for propulsion and lander module seperation
India's ambitious third Moon mission's spacecraft Chandrayaan-3 on Wednesday successfully underwent…
PTI
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NASA is back on the moon with the first commercial lunar landing ever
Intuitive Machines' Odysseus lander is the first US spacecraft to land on the moon in more than 50 …
Ellyn Lapointe,Morgan McFall-…
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Lunar New Year traditions through the lens of three photographers
Photographers Caroline Xia, Ramona Jingru Wang, and Sam Lee share their Lunar New Year celebrations…
Momo Takahashi
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Celestial dance: Lunar and solar eclipses in 2024
In 2024, four eclipses in total will occur – two solar and two lunar eclipses. The first one of the…
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Why Russia and India both crashed near the moon's south pole before India nailed the first soft landing there
Moon landings are rapid, complex, uncertain events where mission operators have no ability to inter…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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NASA scientist says there could be microbial life hiding in dark craters on the moon's south pole
Extreme microbes on Earth have demonstrated they can survive harsh conditions similar to the lunar …
Jessica Orwig
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Lunar bounty: Chandrayaan-3's sulphur discovery could help us get much closer to building Moon colonies
Scientists could use sulphur to create waterless concrete for building Moon bases and produce sulph…
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NASA is sending a water-hunting lunar rover to a shadowy crater on the moon's south pole
NASA's VIPER rover will descend into permanently shadowed craters on the moon's south pole, where t…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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Russia launches Luna-25 mission to Moon, its first lunar lander in 47 years
The spacecraft will look for natural resources, including water, and analyse the effects of space r…