10 May 2019
Bezos unveils Moon mission with Blue Moon lander
When Blue Origin posted a photograph on Twitter a couple of weeks ago of the ship that British explorer Ernest Shackleton used on his famously difficult Antarctic expedition, and with a date reading “5.9.19” curiously written underneath, ...
04 October 2019
Have ancient filaments helped uncover the nature of dark matter?
...-cluster located about 12 billion light years away in the early Universe. Using the Multi Unit Spectroscopic Explorer (MUSE) at the ESO Very Large Telescope (VLT) in Chile and the Suprime-Cam at the Subaru telescope...
01 November 2019
Can Artemis deliver the payload it seeks from the Moon?
... inside the Orion spacecraft is not so clear cut. In presentations by NASA officials at the annual meeting of the Lunar Exploration and Analysis Group (LEAG) this week, eagle-eyed attendees spotted a small footnote on one particular slide...
02 December 2019
Chang'e 4 relay satellite now a radio telescope
... communications relay satellite stationed on the far side of the Moon is now the Netherlands-China Low Frequency Explorer (NCLE); a prototype radio telescope with a mission to detect electromagnetic signals from just after the Big Bang...
20 January 2020
ESA facility begins producing oxygen out of simulated moon dust
... ESA’s Structures, Mechanisms and Materials Division. “We are working with our colleagues in the Human and Robotics Exploration Directorate, European industry and academia to provide top class scientific approaches and key enabling technologies like...
24 April 2020
A population of interstellar asteroids has been found hiding between Jupiter and Neptune
... human and half horse. A few years ago, with the help of NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE), astronomers set out to determine the true nature of these mysterious objects and when the results...
