Have you ever dreamed of going to the moon? Well, you may not be able to do that in person, but you can still send your name there with NASA’s first robotic lunar rover, VIPER. VIPER stands for Volatiles Investigating Polar Exploration Rover, and it is a mission to explore the lunar South Pole and …
Skywatchers across the globe have always been fascinated by the moon. Thanks to the various space agencies and the International Space Station (ISS), we also get a glimpse of how this celestial body looks from space or up close. Here, we have collected five incredible images shared by ISRO, NASA, and ISS. 1- Pic during …
SAN FRANCISCO — Copernic Space is selling digital capacity and lunar assets for a 2024 moon mission. It’s the latest step in the Los Angeles startup’s campaign to create a digital marketplace for selling and financing space assets. Copernic Space lunar payload will be housed in a capsule from San Francisco startup LifeShip. LifeShip is …
The orbiter has performed 56 flybys of Jupiter and documented close encounters with three of the gas giants four largest moons. NASAs Juno spacecraft will on Tuesday, Dec. 30, make the closest flyby of Jupiters moon Io that any spacecraft has made in over 20 years. Coming within roughly 930 miles …
The United States and Japan are making final arrangements to land a Japanese astronaut on the surface of the Moon for the first time, under a U.S.-led lunar exploration program, sources familiar with the matter said Sunday. The Artemis program aims to achieve a historic milestone by sending U.S. astronauts to the lunar surface for …
Calling all stargazers! As the northern hemisphere welcomes winter with the approaching winter solstice, there’s an exciting celestial event in store for sky enthusiasts. The upcoming winter solstice sky will feature a spectacular alignment: the close proximity of Jupiter and the Moon, providing a captivating sight for observers. In the northern hemisphere, the winter solstice …
Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) is set for another adventurous X-ray Polarimeter Satellite (XPoSat) mission later this month following the success of Chandrayaan 3 mission and successful launch of India’s first solar observation mission Aditya L1 this year. ISRO will also take up a series of space exploration missions next year and is set to …
NASA had initially planned for the Artemis 3 mission to land humans on the Moon in 2025, around 52 years after the last Apollo mission landed astronauts in 1952. But now, the United States Government Accountability Office says the space agency will not be able to do that until 2027 at the earliest. But why …
India’s space ambitions are reaching new heights. From working on multiple space missions to International collaborations, the country is uplifting its global status in the field of space exploration. Recently, Victor Joseph, the associate scientific secretary of the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) while delivering his speech at the Bengaluru Tech Summit (BTS-2023), explained what …
Artist’s impression of Theia colliding with the Earth billions of years ago. Credit: Hongping Deng and Hangzhou Sphere Studio New research suggests that large remnants of Theia, a Mars-sized object that collided with Earth to form the Moon, still exist within Earth’s mantle. These remnants are thought to be linked to seismic anomalies and could …