On Dec. 10, 1974, NASA launched Helios 1, the first of two spacecraft to make close observations of the Sun. In one of the ...

The Buran spacecraft was a space shuttle developed by the Soviet Union in response to NASA's space shuttle program. Buran, which means “snowstorm” in Russian, flew one time. NASA's space ...

SpaceX recently hit some notable milestones with its workhorse Falcon 9 rocket, and even in the full context of history, the performance of the vehicle is pretty incredible. Last Tuesday, the ...

This striking new perspective on an icon of the deep sky comes from NASA's James Webb Space Telescope, which has rendered the spiral galaxy that looks like a broad-brimmed Mexican hat both in high ...

Uncertainty is looming for the space industry as President-elect Donald Trump prepares for his second stint in the Oval Office. While it’s hard to predict which space initiatives Trump will ...

ESA & NASA/SOLAR ORBITER/PHI & EUI TEAMS These three colored discs, published by the European Space Agency (ESA) on November 20 – along with a fourth with more explosive contours – are photos ...

NASA's space shuttle Discovery deployed the climate satellite in September 1991 on the orbiter's STS-48 mission. UARS studied Earth's atmosphere for 14 years, measuring many key chemicals that are ...

Ahmedabad: India's space journey is set for a transformative leap, with the Union govt approving two groundbreaking projects — the Venus Orbiter Mission (Shukrayaan-1) and the construction of ...

A series of enigmatic solar phenomena have been revealed in the most detailed full-disc imagery ever obtained of the Sun’s visible surface, made possible by the European Space Agency’s Solar Orbiter ...

The data received from the Venus Orbiter Mission will be received, processed and archived at the Indian Space Science Data Center (ISSDC) for dissemination and use by the scientific community in India ...