The closest solar system to ours is located about 4.3 light-years away from Earth. It’s known as Alpha Centauri, and it’s the place where at least three planets revolve around the Proxima Centauri host star. In other words, finding interstellar ...
Chinese scientists have found a brand-new mineral called Changesite-(Y) in lunar samples returned by China’s Chang’e-5 lunar spacecraft in December 2020. The mineral resembles a diamond a lot due to its crystal clear appearance. China is, at present, the third ...
NASA plans to dress its astronauts in style for the Artemis III mission! As fancy as that sounds, there’s more than meets the eye. The ambitious fashion project will cost the space agency $228.5 million for some Moonwalking spacesuits that ...
Curious about the Moon’s dark side? Well, you might be surprised to find out that our lunar neighbor has only shadows. And it gets better! There are some ‘pockets’ on the Moon’s polar region that are never touched by any ...
Engineers fuelled the SLS (Space Launch System) rocket for a Monday (August 29) launch on NASA’s long-overdue Artemis I test mission. And that’s after months of troubleshooting, tests, and repairs. Unfortunately, the event didn’t go as planned. Officials were forced ...
NASA says the launch of its massive new Moon rocket next Monday is “on!” After reviewing the flight preparation late on Monday (August 22), the space agency concluded that there were no significant technical obstacles. So, a capsule dubbed Orion ...
NASA has yet to send the rocket that will transport men to the moon and the crew to explore the lunar surface. That’s going to be part of the Artemis mission. It has already determined where the astronauts would land ...
How conducive is the Moon to the survival of humans? It seems that our odds have just improved. A recent study has shown that there are regions on the moon where temperatures are consistent enough for human beings to exist. ...
The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO), which serves as NASA’s “eye in the sky” in orbit around the Moon, has located the impact site of the unidentified rocket booster that crashed into the opposite side of the Moon on March 4, ...
NASA hopes to send humans to the Moon once again after more than half a century. If everything goes well, that should happen thanks to the Artemis mission that will take place in 2025 or 2026. But it seems like ...