On Sept. 24, 2014, India's first interplanetary mission entered into orbit around Mars. The Mars Orbiter Mission (MOM), also called Mangalyaan, spent 10 months getting to Mars after it launched. It ...

NEW DELHI — India on Oct. 2 moved its Mars Orbiter to the launch pad at Sriharikota range for its scheduled launch to the red planet on Oct. 28. After a series of tests, scientists at the India Space ...

Twelve years after India made history with the launch of Mangalyaan, the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) has officially announced that the nation will attempt to land on Mars for the first ...

India is now a major player in space science after putting a craft in orbit around Mars at the first attempt earlier this year. Pallava Bagla talks to K Radhakrishnan, chair of the Indian Space ...

BENGALURU—India’s Mars Orbiter Mission (MOM), also known as Mangalyaan, has completed 1,000 Earth days in its orbit, well beyond its six-month mission life, a senior space scientist says. A senior ...

Narayanan also noted that India became the first country to successfully reach Mars orbit on its maiden attempt through the ...