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AFP/APP Kennedy: Three American astronauts and a Russian cosmonaut blasted off Sunday night from Florida for a six-month mission on the International Space Station (ISS). The SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifted off at 10:53 pm (0353 GMT Monday)…

News Desk Islamabad: US scientists have recently discovered a quasar that shines 500 trillion times brighter than the Sun, marking it as potentially the brightest and most powerful phenomenon in the universe. Dubbed J0529-4351, this…

News Desk Islamabad: A research initiative spearheaded by Astrobiologist Catherine Neish from Western University has revealed that the subsurface ocean of Titan, Saturn's largest moon, is deemed a non-habitable environment. This…

Xinhua/APP Los Angeles: NASA launched a new satellite mission into orbit early Thursday to study ocean health, air quality, and the effects of a changing climate for the benefit of humanity. Known as PACE, the Plankton, Aerosol,…

AFP/APP Washington: NASA's Ingenuity Mars helicopter, which made history by achieving the first powered flight on another world, has officially ended its nearly three-year mission after sustaining rotor damage during its last outing, the…

AA/APP Istanbul: The Turkish Space Agency (TUA) announced that Alper Gezeravci, the first Turkish space traveler, has commenced scientific research aboard the International Space Station. Launched as part of the Ax-3 mission from NASA's…

AFP/APP Washington:  NASA has re-established contact with its tiny helicopter on Mars, the US space agency said Saturday, after an unexpected outage prompted fears that the hard-working craft had finally met its end. Ingenuity, a…

AFP/APP Washington: A private US lunar lander mission is doomed to fail, and NASA pushes back plans to return astronauts to the Moon. The twin developments Tuesday represent blows to America's ambitions to stimulate a commercial space…

AFP/APP Washington: A historic private mission to land on the Moon faced near-certain failure Monday after the spacecraft suffered a "critical loss" of fuel, dealing a major blow to America's hopes of placing its first robot on the lunar…

AFP/APP Cape Canaveral: The first American spacecraft to attempt to land on the Moon in more than half a century is poised to blast off early Monday, but this time, private industry is leading the charge. A brand new rocket, the United…