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Geminid meteor shower: Know how and when to watch meteor showers today

Meteors are bright streaks of dazzling light that one often sees in the night sky and they are often termed as "shooting stars"

Food for space: Radish adds to hope of human colonies on Mars, Moon

The radish is the latest addition to several plant species grown at the ISS's veggie chamber, a carefully constructed "greenhouse"

Indian-American among 18 astronauts selected for NASA's Moon mission

Indian-American Raja Jon Vurputoor Chari is among the 18 astronauts selected by NASA for its manned mission to the Moon

If not acted upon, Lunar gold rush could spark conflict on ground: Research

Many countries and private companies have ambitious plans to explore or mine the Moon

NASA picks 18 astronauts including the first-ever woman to set foot on Moon

NASA has named the 18 astronauts half of them women who will train for its Artemis moon-landing programme

Chinese probe Chang'e-5 prepares to return moon rock samples to Earth

A capsule carrying the rock samples is due to land in China's northern grasslands in the Inner Mongolia region in mid-December

Pixxel to launch remote-sensing satellite on Isro rocket in early 2021

With India allowing private companies to operate within the premises of Isro, this is expected to create huge opportunities for the country's fledgling aerospace start-ups

Object temporarily orbiting Earth is 54-year-old rocket, not asteroid: NASA

The object had garnered interest in the planetary science community due to its size and unusual orbit and was studied by observatories around the world, according to an official release

Potential life on Mars likely lived miles below the planet's surface: Study

They showed that the conditions needed for subsurface melting would have been ubiquitous on ancient Mars

Top headlines: Wholesale inflation hits 8-month high, diesel sales fall

Four NASA astronauts reached orbit on a SpaceX rocket in milestone commercial flight, things are looking good for Expedia Group, and here are more top headlines of the day

In pictures: SpaceX Crew-1 mission from NASA's Kennedy Space Center

A SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft carrying four astronauts has been successfully launched from NASA's Kennedy Space Center

SpaceX, NASA send 4 astronauts to space in milestone commercial flight

The Crew-1 mission marks a crucial milestone in the development of a space industry in which private-sector companies provide business and tourism services in low-earth orbit

Botany, cancer research to widen in space as Resilience lifts off on Sunday

Nasa, SpaceX will begin the commercial crew rotation missions to low Earth orbit as Crew-1 with four astronauts lift off later this month

Are we alone? Study hints at 300 mn habitable worlds in Milky Way galaxy

Before Nasa retired the Kepler space telescope in 2018, nine years of the telescope's observations revealed that there were billions of planets in our galaxy

The chase for 16 Psyche, asteroid that is costlier than Earth

It's estimated 16 Psyche contains 24 million-trillion tonnes of metal - that's 24 followed by 15 zeros. This has a notional value of something like $10,000 followed by 15 zeros

Why NASA's moonshot, Boeing, Bezos and Musk have a lot riding on US polls

For the commercial space industry, "consistency is key," said Mike French, a vice president at the Aerospace Industries Association trade group who earlier served as NASA chief of staff under Obama

Water on Moon: Nasa confirms first direct evidence; see in pictures

The discovery indicates that water may be distributed across the lunar surface, and not limited to cold, shadowed places

It's right there: Nasa discovers water on Moon's crater visible from Earth

The discovery comes on the back of several other observations made in the past, including by Chandrayaan-1. Here's why it is of critical importance

Nokia to provide 4G network on Moon: Why it is bad news for radio astronomy

Radio frequency interference (RFI) is the long-term nemesis of radio astronomers. Jodrell Bank - the earliest radio astronomy observatory in the world still in existence - was created because of RFI

Nasa spacecraft touches asteroid surface to return alien samples to Earth

While the mission has been a success so far, it will take about a week for the OSIRIS-REx team to confirm how much samples the spacecraft collected. The goal is to gather at least 60 grams