China’s Chang’e-4 lunar probe taken on the far side of the moon by the Yutu-2 lunar rover.China National Space Administration/AFP via Getty Images More than 50 years after Neil Armstrong set foot on the moon, the world is racing towards the lunar surface again. NASA was planning to land astronauts on the lunar surface earlier… Read More »
SpaceX will send a crew of astronauts to the International Space Station on Wednesday, January 17, for the special Ax-3 mission for Axiom Space, but you’ll need to know where and when if you plan to watch it live online. And for that, space fans, we have what you need. The Ax-3 mission, Axiom Space’s… Read More »
NASA’s last remaining, flight-designed space shuttle external tank has finally taken to the skies, if only for two short hops over Los Angeles. Originally planned as an overnight departure but extended to a two-day period due to wind concerns and additional caution, External Tank-94 (ET-94) was hoisted up by two large cranes and lowered in… Read More »
The Peregrine spacecraft, launched last week on the first U.S. mission aiming to land on the moon in more than 50 years, is headed for Earth and is expected to make a fiery re-entry after a critical fuel leak disrupted its lunar ambitions. The failed moon landing attempt is a setback for NASA’s Commercial Lunar… Read More »
The Peregrine spacecraft, launched last week on the first U.S. mission aiming to land on the moon in more than 50 years, is headed for Earth and is expected to make a fiery re-entry after a critical fuel leak disrupted its lunar ambitions. The failed moon landing attempt is a setback for NASA’s Commercial Lunar… Read More »
If you’ve heard a sonic boom recently, you probably remember it. The loud, explosion-like explosion caused by an aircraft flying faster than the speed of sound can be startling and even shatter glass. Sonic booms are part of the reason supersonic passenger planes fail to fly today, and are one of the factors limiting the… Read More »
NASA Allegation: Female NASA astronaut sabotaged the International Space Station Evaluation: Rating: Unproven In 2018, the question of whether a hole had been deliberately punched into the Russian spacecraft Soyuz MS-09 by a saboteur sparked an investigation by the Russian space agency Roscosmos. Repetitions of the claim appeared on: X and a Reddit to post… Read More »
What’s happening During the four years between 1969 and 1972, 12 American astronauts walked on the moon. In the more than 50 years that followed, no man of any nation repeated this feat. The United States hopes to break that streak in the next few years through NASA’s new lunar program called Artemis. The space… Read More »
In the future, it will not be so difficult to make precision landings on the steep, rocky and crater-filled face of the Moon. At least that’s the goal of NASA’s Lunar Retroreflector Array (LRA) program, an initiative that interfaces with U.S. and foreign Moon landing attempts. The LRA consists of a dome-shaped device with small… Read More »
Editor’s Note: A version of this story appeared in CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. To get it in your inbox, Sign up for free here. Humans landed on the moon during NASA’s Apollo program in the late 1960s and 1970s using computers with much less processing power than today’s smartphones. Still, even fifty years later,… Read More »