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Researchers find moon-forming disk around distant planet
The study, published in the Astrophysical Journal Letters, adds to the intriguing story of planet PDS 70 c — a still-forming gas giant about 370 light years from Earth that was first revealed last month in visible light images
Moon shrinking and creating wrinkles “like a raisin”, spots NASA Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter
A team of scientists examined the data from NASA Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter and compared the location of tremors recorded in the 1960s and 1970s during the Apollo program
Moon could be a chemical factory for water: NASA
Washington: NASA scientists have simulated a chemical process through which ingredients for water could be made on the surface of the Moon making it a chemical factory, an advance that could aid in the goal of sending humans to establish a permanent presence there. The team from the US space[Read More…]
China’s space probe lands on Moon’s far side
Beijing, China’s Chang’e 4 space probe on Thursday became the first spacecraft to make a soft landing on the far side of the moon, Xinhua news agency reported. At 10.26 a.m. (Beijing time), the probe, comprising of a lander and a rover, landed at the pre-selected landing area at 177.6[Read More…]
NASA seeks US partners to develop reusable systems for Moon mission
Washington, NASA is set to work with American companies to design and develop new reusable systems, in a major step to land astronauts on the surface of the Moon. NASA is planning to test new human-class landers on the Moon beginning in 2024, with the goal of sending crew to[Read More…]
Moon dust collected in the first lunar landing to be sold at auction
Nearly five decades ago, when Neil Armstrong took “one giant leap for mankind” by walking on the surface of the moon, he did what any tourist does: He collected a souvenir. Armstrong, the first person to set foot on the lunar surface, scooped some lunar rock– Moondust, which was collected[Read More…]
NASA finds India’s lost Chandrayaan-1 orbiting Moon
Using a new ground-based radar technique, NASA scientists have found India’s first lunar probe – the Chandrayaan-1 spacecraft – which was considered lost. Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) lost communication with Chandrayaan-1 on August 29, 2009, almost a year after it was launched on October 22, 2008. Now, scientists at[Read More…]
Leave your name on the moon
Last astronaut to walk on Moon, dies at 82
Eugene Cernan, the last astronaut to walk on the moon died on Monday at the age of 82. Cernan was also the second man to walk in space passed away, surrounded by his family, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration said in a statement without providing details. Cernan and fellow[Read More…]