If Chandrayaan-2 is successful, it adds to Indian's space legacy. Indian hardware has reached the Moon before, with Chandrayaan-1 orbiting the Moon in 2008.

Chandrayaan 2's long-term observations aim to discern how the water content in the lunar soil changes in response to the lunar environment, i.e., what the lunar water cycle looks like.

Chandrayaan-2 featured three unique space machines: an orbiter, a lander and a rover. The orbiter and the lander, which contained the rover, separated from one another on Sept. 2.

India's Chandrayaan-2 lunar orbiter has finished one year and 4,400 trips around the moon — and the spacecraft is just getting started, Indian space agency officials said Thursday (Aug. 20 ...

India's Chandrayaan-2 spacecraft in orbit around the moon captured this high resolution photo of the lunar south pole on Sept. 5, 2019. (Image credit: India Space Research Organisation) ...

The Chandrayaan-2 mission appeared to end in failure, thwarting India’s bid to become the fourth country to land on the moon. Jagadeesh Nv/EPA, via Shutterstock ...

Why the Chandrayaan-2 moon landing try knocked my emotions out of their orbit Commentary: Every time I watch a major space effort like the one out of India Friday, I feel an intense rush of stress ...

Chandrayaan 2’s Vikram lander descended to a highland plain between two craters, Manzinus C and Simpelius N, at a latitude of 70.9 degrees south. But contact was lost in the final moments of the ...

Chandrayaan-2 is a far greater technical challenge than the controlled crash of its predecessor. The Indian Space Research Organisation's Chandrayaan-2 launches on July 22, 2019.

Chandrayaan-2's lander was named after Vikram A. Sarabhai, "the father of the Indian space program," according to The New York Times. As planned, the 3,200-pound Vikram had detached itself from ...