India aims to send an astronaut to the Moon by 2040, the government said on Tuesday, as Prime Minister Narendra Modi issued instructions to the space department that include plans for a space station by 2035. India’s space ambitions got a boost when it became the first country to land a spacecraft near the moon’s […]
The event also served as a dress rehearsal ahead of the total eclipse scheduled for April 2024. Both eclipses are going to be “absolutely fascinating for science,” said Madhulika Guhathakurta, heliophysics program scientist at NASA. Solar eclipses have a noticeable effect on the upper atmosphere, such as the ionosphere, which is full of charged particles […]
The Indian Space Research Agency had hoped to extend the mission by reactivating the solar-powered vehicle once daylight returns to the lunar surface, but so far it has been greeted with radio silence. According to the Press Trust of India news agency, ISRO chief S. “It’s OK if it doesn’t wake up because the rover […]
Asteroids are composed of the original materials of the Solar System, which are about 4.5 billion years old, and have remained relatively intact. “They can give us clues about how the solar system formed and evolved,” said Melissa Morris, OSIRIS-Rex program executive. “This is our own origin story.” “We believe that asteroids and comets that […]
“The time evolution of the Moon–Earth distance remained an unsolved problem for half a century,” Rufu said. “However, these new geological proxies for the history of the Earth-Moon system allow us to calculate the Moon’s axial tilt and the extent of the PSR over time.” In 2009, NASA crashed a two-ton Atlas Centaur rocket body, […]
Black holes, celestial bodies known for their gluttony, usually devour so many unlucky stars that they get too close to them in one big gulp, destroying them with their enormous gravitational pull. But it turns out that some people prefer to have breakfast instead of filling their stomach. Researchers say they have watched a supermassive […]
Japan’s compact lander, officially called Smart Lander for Investigating the Moon (SLIM), is designed to land within 100 meters of a specific target on the Moon, much shorter than the normal range of several kilometers . “Creating a SLIM lander will bring a qualitative change towards humans being able to land where we want, not […]
India shut down its moon rover, the first to reach the moon’s south pole, after completing its two-week task to conduct experiments, the country’s space agency said. The Pragyaan rover from the Chandrayaan-3 spacecraft was set in “sleep mode”, but the battery was charged and the receiver was operational, the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) […]
Experts are analyzing the situation, it said without giving further details. Earlier, Roscosmos said it had received the first results from the Luna-25 mission and was analyzing them. The agency also posted pictures of the Moon’s Zeeman Crater taken by the spacecraft. It states that the crater is the third-deepest in the Moon’s southern hemisphere, […]
It has been a month and two days since the Indian Space Research Organization launched the Chandrayaan-3 mission on July 14. The spacecraft was launched from the Satish Dhawan Space Center in Sriharikota, Andhra Pradesh. ISRO is striving to make a successful soft landing on the Moon, making India the fourth country in the world […]
While climbing the slope of a sedimentary mountain in 2021, Curiosity found salt deposits forming a hexagonal pattern in the soil from about four billion years ago. According to the study published in the journal Nature, the rover’s instruments identified patterns in the form of cracks in the dry soil. “When the lake dries up […]
Under the Artemis program, NASA is planning a series of missions of increasing complexity to return to the Moon and create a sustained presence to develop and test technologies for the eventual journey to Mars. The first, Artemis 1, will fly an unmanned spacecraft around the Moon in 2022. Artemis 2, planned for November 2024, […]
