Configuration diagram of Tiangong space station. Credit: Space: Science & Technology China’s manned space project was approved in 1992 with a three-step strategic plan, and building a space station is…
Category: Planetary Science
One giant step: Moon race heats up
Only Russia, the US and China have landed safely on the Moon’s surface. The crash landing on the Moon of Russia’s Luna-25 probe is the latest twist in an international…
Image: Hubble captures cosmic cluster
Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, H. Ebeling. The massive cluster Abell 3322 is featured in this image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, in which the galaxy 2MASX J05101744-4519179 basks in…
Both Artemis mobile launchers see action
Credit: CC0 Public Domain NASA’s Artemis program has one tower standing and one just getting started. Mobile launcher 1 (ML-1), which endured some significant damage after its use on the…
Indian lunar lander splits from propulsion module in key step
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain India’s latest space mission completed a key step in the country’s second attempt at a lunar landing, with its Moon module separating from its propulsion section…
XRISM spacecraft will open new window on the X-ray cosmos
This artist’s concept shows a face-on view of the XRISM (X-ray Imaging and Spectroscopy Mission) spacecraft. Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center Conceptual Image Lab The upcoming XRISM (X-ray Imaging and…
Could puncturing a satellite’s battery help it deorbit faster?
Visual depiction of Kessler syndrome. Credit: NASA Orbital Debris Program Office A few years ago, there was a panic about lithium-ion batteries that exploded and could do things like take…
Searching for the universe’s missing teenage pictures
A line intensity image appears smeared compared to traditional galaxy survey images. Credit: Patrick Breysse Astrophysicists can use measurements of the cosmic microwave background, radiation formed 380,000 years after the…
Mars once had wet-dry climate conducive to supporting life: Study
An image taken by the Curiosity rover showing the hexagonal cracked mud in a Martian crater that was once a vast lake. NASA’s Curiosity rover has discovered the first evidence…
