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In a recent announcement, the Chinese Space Agency (CSA) unveiled the names for its forthcoming lunar mission components. The CSA have been working towards sending humans to the Moon through a series of robotic missions. The 22-tonne capsule that is taking the...
Space Safety 26/02/2024 521 views 9 likes ESA’s Hera spacecraft for planetary defence is being prepared for a journey to the distant asteroid moon Dimorphos orbiting around its parent body Didymos. One of the first features Hera will look for is the crater left...
The company that pulled off the first American moon landing in more than half a century just got a shout-out from the country's commander in chief.U.S. President Joe Biden congratulated Intuitive Machines on the historic touchdown of its Odysseus moon lander,...
Back to Article List If Earth let all its extra quarter days add up, we’d quickly be celebrating the 4th of July when it’s snowing. Earth, as seen from space. Credit: NASA. Happy leap year! Feb. 29, 2024, is leap day and marks an ongoing, longstanding...
Japan’s space agency didn’t expect its wrong-side-up SLIM moon lander to revive itself after powering down for a circuit-chilling lunar night on Feb. 1. But that’s exactly what happened. “Last night, a command was sent to SLIM and a response received,...
This Copernicus Sentinel-3 image from October 2023 captures the plains of northern India and Pakistan under a white veil of haze and smoke.Zoom in to explore this image at its full resolution or click on the circles to learn more. Most of the plains at the...
Fresh aurora pictures from a NASA astronaut is making us green with envy.Earlier this month, International Space Station astronaut Jasmin Moghbeli captured absolutely stunning pictures of a flag-like green aurora stretching from the southern regions of the...
Back to Article List Here's our classic step-by-step guide to make a pinhole viewer with a cardboard box. OK, you want to view the Sun or an eclipse, but you don’t have an approved solar filter for your telescope. Maybe you don’t even have a telescope. No...
What are the atmospheric compositions of cold brown dwarf stars? This is what a recent study published in The Astronomical Journal hopes to address as an international team of researchers used NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) to investigate the coldest...
Mission complete. ESA’s second European Remote Sensing (ERS-2) satellite has reentered Earth’s atmosphere over the North Pacific Ocean. The satellite returned at 18:17 CET (17:17 UTC) between Alaska and Hawaii.ERS-2 was launched almost 30 years ago, on 21 April...