A SpaceX Dragon spacecraft carrying nearly 6,000 pound of research equipment, cargo and supplies has successfully launched to the International Space Station (ISS), NASA said on Thursday.

NASA's InSight lander, which touched down on Mars on November 26, has provided the first ever "sounds" of Martian wind on the Red Planet, the NASA said.InSight sensors captured a haunting low rumble caused by vibrations from the wind, estimated to be blowing between 10 to 15 mph (5 to 7 metres a second) on December 1, from northwest to southeast, NASA said on Friday. Citing NASA, Xinhua news agency reported the winds were consistent with the direction of dust devil streaks in the landing area, which were observed from orbit. "Capturing this audio was an unplanned treat," said Bruce Banerdt, InSight principal investigator at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California. "But one of the things our mission is dedicated to is measuring motion on Mars, and naturally that includes motion caused by sound waves." According to NASA, two very sensitive sensors on the spacecraft detected these wind vibrations: an air pressure sensor inside the lander and a seismometer sitting on the lander's deck, awaiting deployment by InSight's robotic arm. The two instruments recorded the wind noise in different ways. The air pressure sensor, which will collect meteorological data, recorded these air vibrations directly. The seismometer recorded lander vibrations caused by the wind moving over the spacecraft's solar panels, which are each 7 feet (2.2 metres) in diameter and stick out from the sides of the lander like a giant pair of ears. This is the only phase of the mission during which the seismometer, called the Seismic Experiment for Interior Structure (SEIS), will be capable of detecting vibrations generated directly by the lander, said NASA. In a few weeks, it will be placed on the Martian surface by InSight's robotic arm, then covered by a domed shield to protect it from wind and temperature changes. It will detect the lander's movement through the Martian surface, said NASA. SEIS is recording vibrational data that scientists later will be able to use to cancel out noise from the lander when SEIS is on the surface, allowing them to detect better actual marsquakes. InSight landed safely at Elysium Planitia on Mars on November 26, kicking off a two-year mission to explore the deep interior of the Red Planet.

China launched a lunar probe on Saturday which is expected to make the first-ever soft landing on the far side of the moon.

Scientists keep on observing if there is traces which could indicate extraterrestrial life in the universe. Recently, an expert from NASA says that aliens may have already visited Earth but we humans missed to notice their arrival.

In a new development, scientists have detected huge collision between two black holes in a distant galaxy. The gravitational waves from the collision are leading to the formation of a new, huge black hole 80 times larger than our sun.

SpaceX has launched its Falcon 9 rocket carrying 64 small satellites into low orbit around the Earth. Indeed, Elon Musk, the founder of the space agency has set a new record in the US.

An international team of astronomers have discovered more than 100 extrasolar planets (exoplanets) -- that revolve around stars other than the Sun -- in only three months, using a combination of ground- and space-based telescopes.

While the whole country was in deep sleep, Indian scientists lifted off its heaviest and most advanced communication satellite, GSAT-11. The satellite was launched successfully to space from a European spaceport in faraway South America.

NASA's Osiris-Rex reached the desired destination and revealed many things. The probe flew on December 3 to within a dozen miles of skyscraper-sized asteroid believed to hold organic compounds fundamental to life as well as the potential to collide with Earth in about 150 years.

NASA scientists recently came to know that the Earth's atmosphere is leaking into space. To confirm the finding, the space agency is all set to launch a sounding rocket to get a closer look at how the phenomenon is taking place.

NASA spacecraft engineered to explore asteroid Bennu is on course to arrive its destination on December 3, the US space agency reports. The spacecraft has been designed to bring small sample from asteroid to Earth.

NASA has finally selected nine companies that will compete for billions of dollars in contracts to take small payloads for the agency to the surface of the moon.

Growing warnings by scientists of an impending high-magnitude earthquake in the Himalayas have got further credence from yet another study by Indian researchers.

The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) confirms that the country's heaviest communication satellite with high throughput GSAT-11 will be launched into orbit by Ariane-5 rocket of Arianespace from French Guiana on December 5, 2018.

Close to 654 Indian flapshell turtles have been recovered from a pond in Bharthana in Uttar Pradesh's Etawah district on Wednesday. Sadly, 482 turtles were found to be dead and the rest 172 were severely sick. The turtle belonged to Lissemys punctata species, which is a protected species under The Indian Wildlife (Protection) Act, 1972 and International Union for Conservation of Nature's (IUCN) Red List of Threatened Species.

India on Thursday put into orbit its own earth observation satellite with a sharp eye, the Hyper Spectral Imaging Satellite (HysIS), and 30 other foreign satellites in text-book style.

45th Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV) flight from Sriharikota will place HysIS satellite, also known as 'Chhota Bheem', in the sky with another 30 small co-passenger satellites.

Cheers and applause were seen at the NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory on Monday as its unmanned lander – InSight – successfully landed on the surface of Red Planet. Based on the first pictures sent by the spacecraft, it looks to be in good shape so far.