The redness of asteroid 469219 Kamo‘oalewa marks it out as probably originating on the moon, and…
China launches 3-member crew to its space station as it seeks to put astronauts on the moon by 2030
A Long March rocket carrying a crew of Chinese astronauts in a Shenzhou-18 spaceship lifts off…
NASA’s Optical Comms Demo Transmits Data Over 140 Million Miles
NASA’s Deep Space Optical Communications experiment also interfaced with the Psyche spacecraft’s communication system for the…
Hera asteroid mission’s side-trip to Mars
ESA’s Hera mission will be humankind’s first mission to explore a binary asteroid system. The mission…
Navigating the Moon with Art
Artists used paintbrushes and airbrushes to recreate the lunar surface on each of the four models…
Navigating the Moon with Art
An artist uses an airbrush to recreate the lunar surface on one of the four models…
The Mars Sample Return mission has a shaky future, and NASA is calling on private companies for backup
The equipment planned to help bring samples back from Mars. Credit: NASA/JPL A critical NASA mission…
First Ariane 6 booster gets lift to launch zone
The first of two boosters that will power the Ariane 6 ‘flight model-1’ into orbit this…
Here’s Why We Should Put a Gravitational Wave Observatory on the Moon
Scientists detected the first long-predicted gravitational wave in 2015, and since then, researchers have been hungering…
What are planets made of?
Ice giants likely have cores of rock and metal similar to those of the gas giants.…