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How Much Damage Will Lunar Landings Do to Lunar Orbiters?
A new study considers how missions landing and taking off from the lunar surface could cause damage to orbiting spacecraft.
NASA Seeks Industry Proposals for Next-Generation Lunar Rover
As Artemis II gets ready to launch in November 2024, NASA recently announced it is pursuing contract proposals from private…
Chandra and JWST Join Forces in a Stunning Series of Images
NASA scientists have combined data from the James Webb and Chandra observatories to create stunning series of images.
Remember Those Impossibly Massive Galaxies? They May Be Even More Massive
A new analysis of those James Webb images showed that the galaxies it observed (deemed "too massive") could be even…
Artemis V is Going to the Moon With Blue Origin
NASA has announced a second lunar lander provider for its Artemis program, choosing Blue Origin’s National Team to deliver astronauts…
Mars Has a Thick Crust. Its Internal Heat Mainly Comes from Radioactivity
How thick is the crust of Mars? This question is what a recent study published in Geophysical Research Letters attempted…
Four of Uranus’ Moons Might Have Liquid Oceans, Too
The study of ocean worlds, planetary bodies with potential interior reservoirs of liquid water, has come to the forefront in…
Kathy Lueders Was NASA's Top Human Spaceflight Official. Now She Works for SpaceX
Another of NASA’s top human spaceflight officials has joined SpaceX. Kathy Leuders, the former associate administrator for NASA's Space Operations…
It’s Time to Figure Out How to Land Large Spacecraft Safely on Other Worlds
One of the most iconic events in history is Apollo 11 landing on the lunar surface. During the descent, astronauts…
China Has its Own Secret Space Plane, and it Just Landed
China's mysterious experimental spaceplane (Shenlong) just returned to Earth after spending 276 days in orbit.