The Martian moon: Phobos

This handout image from obtained from the European Space Agency / National Aeronautics and Space Administration, obtained on August 21, 2008 taken by the High Resolution Stereo Camera on board the......

PHOTOS: Mangalyaan and other successful Mars missions

India made history on Wednesday as its maiden Mars mission, Mangalyaan, entered the red planet's orbit India has become the first country to go to Mars in its maiden attempt. And it has beaten......

India's Mars mission isn't about science, but spectacle

The Mars mission is overwhelmingly irrelevant to space science and won't advance the frontiers of knowledge, says Praful Bidwai. Militant-nationalist euphoria is invariably conjured up whenever......

An Indian mission to Venus?

India, with its demonstrated capabilities of undertaking low cost high value inter-planetary travel, offers great opportunities for NASA to work with, says Pallava Bagla An Indo-US deep space......