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As the nation moves closer to its goal of landing a person on the moon by 2030, China’s Chang’e 6 robotic mission is scheduled to launch this week with the goal of returning samples from the moon’s far side for the first time. The Chang’e
Methane has been consistently found on Mars since 2012 by NASA’s Curiosity rover, particularly in the vicinity of its landing site within the 96-mile-wide (154-kilometer) Gale Crater. However, the methane on Mars is acting strangely. It only shows up at night, varies with the seasons,
SpaceX hopes to duplicate the last two back-to-back days of launches, which occurred just over a week ago. SpaceX added two more Florida rocket launches to the year’s rapidly increasing total when it launched Starlink satellites into orbit on the evenings of Wednesday and Thursday
In a news release from NASA, the agency said that on Tuesday, April 22, at NASA’s Johnson Space Center (JSC) in Houston, astronauts Barry “Butch” Wilmore and pilot Suni Williams, who would be flying on Boeing Starliner, entered the routine pre-flight quarantine. As stated by
A military spacecraft of unknown origin has taken launched using one of Elon Musk’s rockets. Using one of its Falcon Heavy rockets, the billionaire’s rocket business SpaceX launched the US Space Force’s top-secret X-37B spacecraft into orbit on Thursday. The mysterious spacecraft has been launched
For an extended period, certain astronomers have opined that peculiar actions occurring at the periphery of our solar system could be mostly attributed to an additional, unexplored planet. This contributes to the explanation of the orbits of objects located at the furthest points of our
The Winchcombe meteorite was impacted by water and frequently broke apart and reassembled during its space voyage, as shown by a thorough new nano-analysis, before landing in an English sheep farm in 2021. On the study, researchers from numerous universities in the US, Australia, Europe,
Indigenous peoples residing on the Great Plains of Montana and southern Alberta may trace their beginnings to ice period antecedents according to the Blackfoot Confederacy’s old ancestry, which dates back 18,000 years, according to a recent DNA study. A group of scientists lead by two
The interaction between meandering ocean currents and the ocean floor causes upwelling velocity, which carries warm water to shallower depths, according to a recent study published in Nature Communications. The Amundsen Sea in West Antarctica is seeing significant ice shelf melting due to this mechanism.
A group of businesses was given a contract by the European Space Agency to continue working on a Mars rover mission that was thrown off course by geopolitics two years prior. On April 9, ESA declared that it has given a team headed by Thales