With two full moons, two Aadi Fridays, Krishna’s birthday and Vishnupati lined up, August holds lot of celestial importance this year. The first full moon falls on August 1 and the second one will app

US astronaut Marsha Ivins sought to deny Monday claims by some film-makers and websites that no American ever set foot on the moon but were videographed in a Nasa studio.

Delivering a lecture at B.S.

The first of two NASA lunar probes on a mission to study the Moon's inner core so as to better understand the origins of planets went into orbit on saturday, the US space agency said.

The first Gravi

Discarded Christmas cards and wrapping paper can fuel 20 moon trips by a double-decker bus and back -- the staggering equivalent of 18 million km.

Imperial College of London scientists have shown how

Moon’s glow as an eerie, coppery red disk in the sky left the astro-enthusiasts spell bound during the century’s longest and darkest total lunar eclipse in the small hours on Thursday.

New Delhi: ISRO scientists have discovered a giant underground chamber on the moon, which could be used as a lunar base by astronauts for inter-planetary missions.

Scientists at the Space Applicatio

London: NASA has unveiled a plan to send a humanoid robot to the Moon in just 1,000 days for a fraction of the cost of sending a human.

The plan would cost less than 200million dollars, plus 250milli

Washington: A year after announcing the discovery of water molecules on the moon, NASA scientists have now said the earth's satellite is not only rich in useful materials, it has a water cycle of its

The moon is shrinking, say planetary scientists who claim to have spotted on its surface cracks which form when a planetary body cools and contracts. However, there's no cause for alarm as it is shrin