The Chandrayaan-3 mission aims at finding insights into lunar water exploration, which could eventually help in lunar mining and also the discovery of extraterrestrial resources beyond.
India landed its Chandrayaan-3 spacecraft near the moon's south pole, becoming only the fourth nation to do so.
A successful soft landing on the lunar south pole would put India in the elite space club of nations that have managed to achieve a soft landing on the moon. The U.S., China, and the former Soviet Union are currently the only members of that club.
The plans for Aditya-L1 include placing the spacecraft in a halo orbit around the Lagrange point 1 (L1)--around 1.5 million km from the Earth--of the Sun-Earth system.
"There is no danger that they interfere with each other or collide. There is enough space for everyone on the moon," the Russian space agency said.
"This is the third time in succession that ISRO has successfully inserted its spacecraft into the lunar orbit, apart from doing so into the Martian orbit," the space agency noted in a statement.
"After failure of Lander on Chandrayaan 2, ISRO has been working incessantly to rectify problems in lander" and the new lander has seen "many improvements," said Sandip K. Chakrabarti, one of India's most notable scientists in the field of astronomy and astrophysics.
The twin-rocket plan includes sending a pair of launch vehicles — one with a moon surface lander and another carrying the astronauts — into lunar orbit, said Zhang Hailian, deputy chief engineer with the China Manned Space Agency (CMSA).
The 3D visualization makes it seem as though you're flying past the galaxies in space.
Skywatchers are getting another chance at spotting the aurora in various parts of the U.S. later in the week.
The Sun belched out a coronal mass ejection on the Fourth of July. NOAA's Space Weather Prediction Center says an "Earth-directed component" is expected to arrive on Friday after mid-day.
Ariane 5 blasted off from French Guiana on Wednesday for its final mission, which turned out to be a success.
As you celebrate the day with barbecues and social gatherings, know about some important NASA milestones that happened on the Fourth of July.
NASA said it aims to send the "first woman and next man" to the moon by 2024.
The European Space Agency and Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency's BepiColombo spacecraft conducted the third of its six flybys of Mercury this week.
NASA shared new "cosmic harmonies" from the James Webb, Spitzer, Chandra and Hubble space telescopes.
An eerie green light is visible near the edge of a massive storm in a citizen scientist-processed image from the Juno spacecraft.
The Geminid meteor shower is unlike other meteor showers because of its parent body. Scientists now shed light on its origins.
The Curiosity Rover took the photos on April 8. The combined image gives a lovely view of the Martian landscape.
Astrophotographer Thierry Legault shared the stunning footage he captured in a Facebook post, which also included a slowed-down and more close-up version of the footage.
The ESA shared a "movie" of the Martian livestream, condensing the hour-long footage to just a few seconds.
People's names will be stenciled into a microchip that will fly with the Europa Clipper mission, along with a poem written by U.S. poet laureate Ada Limón.
The live stream will last for an hour on Friday.
"No one had found planets in this dataset before," study co-author Andrew Vanderburg says.
Some of the volunteers will cycle while being spun on a centrifuge.
The volcanic world looks quite intense in the new Juno photos.
The vibrant features of the Sun look quite like intense brush strokes.
The Da Vinci glow before and April and May New Moons are said to be the best for 2023.
The rocket burned up as it increased its speed while descending, which led some to think it was a meteor.
The object pierced through the home's roof and crashed into the hardwood floor.
