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Already on its way, India has successfully launched the unmanned Chandrayaan 1 spacecraft on its first mission to the Moon. The launch went smoothly from a launch pad in southern Andhra Pradesh to embark on a two-year mission of exploration, and was greeted with applause by scientists gathered at the site.
Read MoreIf all goes well, on October 22 the Indian Space Research Organization, or ISRO, is scheduled to launch its robotic Chandrayaan-1 on from Sriharikota, India. Riding along on India's maiden moon voyage will be two NASA instruments to map the lunar surface.
Read MoreThe Mars Phoenix Lander's robotic arm successfully delivered soil into oven six of the lander's thermal and evolved-gas analyzer (TEGA) on Monday, Oct. 13th. Four of the eight cells in the Thermal and Evolved-Gas Analyzer on NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander.
Read MoreIn this photo, the Cassini spacecraft looks toward Rhea's cratered, icy landscape, with the dark line of Saturn's ringplane and the planet's murky atmosphere as a background.
Read MoreAll is well after a smooth countdown and climb toward space, NASA's IBEX spacecraft is in orbit after launching from the Kwajalein Atoll, a part of the Marshall Islands in the Pacific Ocean. IBEX was launched aboard a Pegasus rocket dropped from under the wing of an L-1011 aircraft flying over the Pacific Ocean.
Read MoreAbout three times a second, a 10,000-year-old stellar corpse sweeps a beam of gamma-rays toward Earth. Discovered by NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope, the object, called a pulsar, is the first one known that only "blinks" in gamma rays.
Read MoreLockheed Martin [NYSE: LMT] recently delivered the backshell for the Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) to NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif.
Read MoreNASA's Cassini spacecraft looks upward at the swirling clouds of Saturn's southern hemisphere. In this photo, the C and B rings are seen at right, beyond the planet's nightside limb.
Read MoreEuropean space scientists are getting closer to unravelling the origin of Mars’ larger moon, Phobos. Thanks to a series of close encounters by ESA’s Mars Express spacecraft, the moon looks almost certain to be a ‘rubble pile’, rather than a single solid object.
Read MoreChandrayaan-1 is the first lunar mission from the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) and is designed to orbit the Moon and carries radar and particle detectors as well as instruments that will make observations in the visible, near infrared, and X-ray part of the electromagnetic spectrum.
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