Update for Jan. 21: The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency shut down its moon lander to conserve battery power, but says…
It’s a real shame that spaceflight is seen as routine by the world’s media. In reality, our exploration of the…
Space missions regularly test multiple new technologies in one go. It's very common to have a single mission test out…
Life appeared on Earth through a series of lucky coincidences, and that luck started with our Moon. None of the…
In November, we reported how an impact on the Moon from a Chinese Long March rocket booster created an unusual…
Testing interplanetary landers means putting them in an environment as close to their destination as possible. Mars landers are often…
In the coming decade, multiple space agencies and commercial space providers are determined to return astronauts to the Moon and…
For almost half a century, the term "Anthropocene" has been informally used to describe the current geological epoch. The term…
On August 23, ISRO's Vikram lander detached from its propulsion module and made a soft landing near the Moon’s south…
With NASA gearing up to send humans back to the Moon in the next few years with the Artemis missions…