20 August 2021
"Weird" comet ATLAS may be a remnant of an ancient visitor
... such a space visitor made an appearance all of those years ago? The answer is comet ATLAS (C/2019 Y4). Discovered by its namesake in December 2019, the Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (ATLAS), a robotic astronomical survey system based...
11 November 2019
Rare transit of Mercury happening soon!
Mercury, the innermost planet of the Solar System will be making a rare transit of the Sun today (11 November, 2019) and from around 1200 UTC (12.00pm GMT) people from South America, eastern North America, and ...
21 October 2019
Russia could join US-led Lunar Gateway programme
Russia wants to collaborate on NASA's plan for a Moon-orbiting space station known as the Lunar Gateway but needs to firm up its own lunar exploration plans before committing to how Russia would take part. Sergey Krikalev, executive director for ...
22 October 2019
Bezos announces Blue Moon partnership for lunar landing
Blue Origin founder Jeff Bezos announced at the International Astronautical Congress (IAC) in Washington DC today (Tuesday) that his space company is to head up a national team to offer a human landing system for NASA's Artemis programme to return ...
April 2020
Developing a commercial market for small sample return
... and how to use them responsibly. A busy poster session at the Lunar & Planetary Science Conference in Houston, Texas, in 2019. One of the most efficient ways we suspect we can enhance our understanding of any world we intend to visit is to return...
24 July 2017
First lunar observatory for Moon's south pole in 2019
A collaboration for the delivery of the first International Lunar Observatory, known as ILO-1, to the Moon's south pole by 2019 has been agreed by the International Lunar Observatory Association (ILOA) and Moon Express. The International Lunar ...
