Space Adventures already has helped put tourists into orbit with trips to the International Space Station, working with the Russian space program Elon Musk's California-based SpaceX already is dabbling in space tourism, signing on a Japanese billionaire to fly to the moon in three or so years
2 min read19 Feb 2020Nasa's Parker Solar Probe will fly straight through the wispy edges of the corona, or outer solar atmosphere, that was visible during last August's total solar eclipse
4 min read12 Aug 2018The Parker Solar Probe capable of withstanding 2,500 degrees Fahrenheit (1,370 degrees Celsius).
4 min read9 Aug 2018Tess, which is expected to find thousands of new exoplanets orbiting nearby stars, lifted off at 4:21 am IST on Thursday on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida
2 min read20 Apr 2018The launch of a new Nasa satellite, which will hunt for exoplanets that have the potential to harbour alien life, has been delayed to 18 April
2 min read17 Apr 2018The satellite, developed by scientists at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in the US, aims to discover thousands of nearby exoplanets, including at least 50 Earth-sized ones
2 min read12 Apr 2018The effort is part of SpaceX's mission to lower the cost of space flight by re-using costly, multimillion-dollar components that typically have been discarded into the ocean after each launch
1 min read3 Apr 2018US lawmakers say they will receive classified briefings on a secret government satellite that apparently crashed into the sea after it was launched by Elon Musk's SpaceX
2 min read11 Jan 2018Elon Musk's SpaceX launches its Zuma mission for US government from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida on a Falcon 9 rocket
1 min read8 Jan 2018The Inmarsat-5 F4 satellite, built by Boeing, blasted off atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral, Florida
1 min read16 May 2017The Union Budget contains details about the estimated receipts and the expenditure of the government for a particular fiscal year. The Budget is allotted for the upcoming fiscal year, which runs from 1st April to 31st March of the next year. Here is a quick guide on how the Union Budget is prepared