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NASA's Orion spacecraft shows first images of Earth on its way to Moon

NASA's Orion spacecraft, designed to "carry humans to Moons and beyond" shared, sent first images from space hours after its thunderous launch on space agency's mightiest rocket in a dress rehearsal for astronaut flights.

NASA's next-generation Artemis-1 mission finally lifts off 50 years after Apollo

NASA's new moon rocket blasted off on its debut flight with three test dummies aboard early Wednesday, bringing the U.S. a big step closer to putting astronauts back on the lunar surface for the first time since the end of the Apollo program 50 years ago.

Out-of-control Chinese rocket debris crashes in the Pacific Ocean

Chinese rocket debris weighing 23 tons has crashed to Earth in an uncontrolled descent Friday. U.S. Space Command tweeted a confirmation that the rocket re-entered the Earth's atmosphere over the south-central Pacific Ocean at 4:01 a.m. Friday.

ISRO's LVM3 to make commercial debut with launch of 36 OneWeb Satellites on October 23

"It is the first LVM3-specific commercial launch on demand via NSIL," according to ISRO. "This agreement with M/s OneWeb symbolises a historic turning point for NSIL and ISRO as LVM3 enters the global commercial launch service market," the company says.

Lab-grown human brain cells play video game Pong

The researchers grew mouse embryonic brain cells and some human brain cells derived from stem cells on top of microelectrode arrays that could stimulate and read their activity to experiment.

DART mission successfully changed motion of an asteroid, says NASA

NASA on Tuesday said it had succeeded in deflecting an asteroid in a historic test of humanity's ability to stop an incoming cosmic object from devastating life on Earth. It further said DART impactor deliberately smashed into the moonlet asteroid Dimorphos on September 26, pushing it into a smaller, faster orbit around its big brother Didymos.

NASA captures an image of Bubble Nebula, 7,100 light-years from Earth; here's what we know

While sharing the image, NASA wrote, "The cosmic bubble wrap is 7,100 light-years away in the constellation Cassiopeia. The Bubble Nebula is one of the most well-known star bubbles."

Hurricane Ian forces NASA's Artemis I moon mission to November

NASA has determined it will focus Artemis I launch planning efforts on the launch period that opens on November 12 and closes on November 27. NASA said teams at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida conducted initial inspections Friday to assess potential impacts from the Hurricane.

Nobel Prize 2022: Svante Pääbo bags award in medicine for 'discoveries concerning human evolution'

Svante Pääbo has been given the award “for his discoveries concerning the genomes of extinct hominins and human evolution," the Nobel Prize committee said. The prize, arguably among the most prestigious in the scientific world, is awarded by the Nobel Assembly of Sweden's Karolinska Institute and is worth 10 million Swedish crowns ($900,357).

ISRO's Mangalyaan runs out of fuel after 8 years of long innings

India's Mars Orbiter craft has run out of propellant and its battery drained beyond the safe limit, fuelling speculation that the country's maiden interplanetary mission 'Mangalyaan' may have finally completed its long innings. The Mars orbiter craft functioned for almost eight years, well beyond its designed mission life of six months.