04 February 2019
The Moon is a mini-Earth suggests new research
... impactor that struck it. However new research from planetary scientist Kevin Righter of the Astromaterials Research and Exploration Science Division (ARES) at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas, questions that assumption. Using a “bulk...
12 April 2019
Beresheet spacecraft crash lands on the Moon
.... The low-cost nature of the project has paved the way for further low-cost lunar exploration and with a $1 million now at SpaceIL’s disposal, Beresheet 2.0 could soon be in the making...
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...
