NASA announced two new missions to Venus on Wednesday that will launch at the end of the decade and are aimed at learning how Earth's nearest planetary neighbor became a hellscape while our own thrived.

NASA announces two new missions to Venus

From Moon to Mars: Milestones in space exploration

In the year 2020, three separate Mars missions began their journey. Rewind & revisit this year from the prism of space exploration through WION's this report.

2020: The year of three separate Mars missions

Uranus wasn’t always tilted! A study claims that the planet was struck by an earth-size rock which then titled it and may also be responsible for birthing the planet’s moons.

Uranus wasn't always tilted: Find out what actually happened!

SpaceX launched its third batch of 60 Starlink satellites on Monday (January 6), the first of its 2020 push to get 1.5k satellites into space to become operational before year's end.

SpaceX launches first batch of 2020 Starlink satellites

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday congratulated the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) team for the successful launch of PSLV-C47 carrying indigenous Cartosat-3 satellite and over a dozen nano-satellites.

PM Modi congratulates ISRO for successfully launching PSLV-C47 carrying Cartosat-3

After announcing on Thursday that it would launch its first Mars exploration mission in 2020, China completed the first experiment in a series of many to come. The experiment included simulating a probe hovering, avoiding obstacles, and descending to Mars in Huailai County of north China's Hebei province.

China completes Mars landing experiment, to launch mission in 2020

National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) will send a golf cart-sized robot to the moon in 2022 to search for deposits of water below the surface, an effort to evaluate the vital resource ahead of a planned human return to the moon in 2024 to possibly use it for astronauts to drink and to make rocket fuel, the US space agency said on Friday.

NASA plans to send water-hunting robot to moon surface in 2022

Scientists have captured a view of a colossal black hole violently ripping apart a doomed star, illustrating an extraordinary and chaotic cosmic event from beginning to end for the first time using NASA's planet-hunting telescope.

Caught in the act: A black hole rips apart a star

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) on Friday, tweeted out images of the "targeted landing site of India’s Chandrayaan-2 lander Vikram" and stated that the lander had a "hard landing".

NASA says Chandrayaan-2's Vikram's landing site obscured by shadows

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) on Monday earmarked almost $3 billion to Lockheed Martin to build three Orion capsules, to allow US astronauts to return to the moon by 2024.

NASA in megadeal with Lockheed Martin for moon missions

Hard soil, big jumps and epiphanies: What it's like on the Moon

ISRO Plans To Have Its Own Space Station. Here's A Brief History Of India's Gradual Rise As A Global Space Superpower.

Gravitas: India's ambitious journey in space exploration

The Trump administration isn't convinced the $10.7 billion set aside for space exploration in the proposed 2020 budget is enough to help put astronauts on the Moon by 2024.

Trump administration proposes another $1.6 billion for Moon efforts

Remarkable image of black hole released in space breakthrough

SpaceX CEO Elon Musk's intention to colonise the Red Planet is not unknown to the world

Jeff Bezos to spend 'majority of his fortune' getting into space  

SpaceX said Iridium had received "healthy signals" from all 10 satellites

Watch: SpaceX successfully deploys 10 satellites into low-earth orbit

No human has been to the moon since 1972. But India, China and Russia would like to change that, and soon

Opinion: Why India & China plan to travel to the Moon

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