Meant for 6 months, India's Mars orbiter craft completes 8 years in orbit

India's Mars orbiter craft has completed eight years in its orbit, well beyond its designed mission life of six months. Plans on a follow-on 'Mangalyaan' mission to the Red Planet, however, are......

Watch live: Historic moment as Mangalyaan enters Mars orbit

  After a cruising for nearly 9 months, India's first interplanetary probe, Mangalyaan, will on Wednesday aim for Mars orbit. The tricky manoeuvre involves slowing down the spacecraft......

India's one giant leap: Mangalyaan enters Mars orbit

September 24 will go down in history as a red letter day. India successfully placed its spacecraft in orbit around Mars, becoming the first country in the world to succeed in such an......

Modi reveals names of Gaganyan mission astronauts. They are...

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday announced the names of the four astronauts--all IAF fighter pilots--for India's ambitious maiden human spaceflight mission Gaganyaan scheduled for next year.......