The latest mission in India's ambitious space programme blasted off Saturday on a voyage towards the centre of the solar system, a week after the country's successful unmanned Moon landing.Aditya-L1 launched shortly before midday, with a live broadca...

Kneeling on the edge of a deep crater, astronaut Alexander Gerst uses a chisel to collect a sample of volcanic rock which he carefully puts inside a white plastic bag.Gerst is not on the Moon, even if it looks like it. He is in the middle of Los Volc...

NASA's historic uncrewed mission to the Moon is facing fresh difficulties.After technical problems derailed two launch attempts several weeks ago, a new liftoff of the Artemis 1 mission scheduled for Tuesday is now threatened by a storm gathering in...