Credit: Depositphotos The largest and brightest supermoon of the year will rise this week. According to NASA, the moon will look full from Tuesday evening until Friday morning, giving you plenty of opportunities to enjoy the view. There’s a brief period between Wednesday evening and Thursday morning when the moon will be at its closest to...
China's new space suit takes to the stageXinhua/Wang Quanchao China aims to send astronauts to the Moon by around 2030 and recently showcased the new spacesuits they’ll be using. During a media event, the China Manned Space Agency (CMSA) demonstrated the suits with two astronauts testing them out for the cameras. Based on current plans, the...
Credit: Pixabay Fortunately, NASA is advancing plans to implement a standardized time zone on the Moon. The proposed Coordinated Lunar Time (LTC) would help schedule missions and explorations, making future efforts to establish a permanent base on the lunar surface somewhat easier. While the concept has been previously discussed, NASA has announced plans to collaborate with...
Credit: Pixabay Step aside, Moon—Earth is about to gain a new natural satellite. This "mini-moon" will stay with us for the next two months, though it’s not its first visit, and it won’t be the last. This temporary mini-moon is actually a small asteroid, about 10 meters (33 feet) wide, officially named 2024 PT₅. Discovered just...
A rendering of a wall-building robot constructing a blast shield ring on the MoonPhoto credit to NASA, processing/scanning credit to Kipp Teague and NASA Johnson (image AS17-141–21610), edited Living on the Moon means that rockets will be your sole mode of transportation to Earth or Mars. However, each launch will create a storm of debris....
An international research team discovered a lava tube on the Moon, indicating a potential habitat safe from harsh lunar conditions. The study, which reanalyzed NASA LRO mission data, offers significant insights for future lunar exploration. (Artist’s concept.) Credit: SciTechDaily.com For the past 50 years, the existence of tunnels beneath the lunar surface has been a...
Saturn has a minimum of 146 moons, making it the planet with the most moons in the solar system. Credit: dottedhippo via Getty Images When observing the night sky, the moon is typically the brightest and largest object visible without a telescope, making it the only natural satellite most people can see with the naked...
Chang’e-6 lander on the far side of the Moon.Image credit: CNSA/CLEP The Moon´s Surface studied by The European Space Agency (ESA) which announced the detection of negative ions on the Moon's Surface, just days after the Chinese National Space Agency's Chang’e-6 lander placed detection equipment on the far side of the Moon. Chang'e-6 Mission Chang'e-6 landed...
The lunar crater Giordano Bruno, captured here by the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, is home sweet home for a small near-Earth asteroid, according to a new studyNASA/Goddard/Arizona State University Scientists have long been able to trace many asteroids back to their parent bodies, whether planets or moons. However, they now assert for the first time that...
An illustration of a full moon in the night sky. The decision is in, then. After all, the Moon is not composed of green cheese. According to a detailed analysis released in May 2023, the Moon's inner core is a solid ball with a density akin to iron. Resolving this long-running controversy – is it solid...
