A rumor in the spring of 2016, claiming that the moon would turn green. The green moon occurred because of the planets’ alignment, which will cause an eerie glow, according to EarthSky. But did our celestial neighbor turn green? The celestial body turning green occurrence was on April 20 and again on May 29 for […]
On December 11, 1972, Apollo 17 astronauts landed on the lunar surface in a region called the Taurus-Littrow valley. The two astronauts who made this historic moon landing include Mission Commander Gene Cernan, and module pilot Harrison Schmitt. While Ronald Evans, the command module pilot arrived at the lunar orbit with the astronauts, he never
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It’s the evening of 19th April 2074, Michael, Kim, and Philips are standing next to huge vegetation inside their Martian outpost. The crew noticed that some vegetables that they had been growing using the hydroponics method were dying. Michael could see the sadness written all over the faces of Kim and Philips. It’s been three
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On Friday, Dec. 8, Halley’s Comet will commence with its 38-year journey to Earth. The popular space rock orbits the sun following a flattened elliptical orbit that drives it near to our star before taking it far away beyond the outer limits of our solar system. Astronomers revealed that Halley’s Comet arrived at perihelion on
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China is one of the top space agencies hoping to retrieve samples from the Martian terrain. While NASA and the European Space Agency (ESA) are already making plans to return samples from the Mars Perseverance rover, researchers have proposed a foldable futuristic new quadcopter that could help China recover sample materials from the red planet. The
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Finding signs of life in the Universe has remained the primary objective of most astrobiologists. In the last decade when NASA’s Cassini spacecraft was still in operation in the Saturnian system, it turned its instruments towards Saturn’s moon Enceladus. While making this turn, the space probe studied plumes of ice ejecting upward from the surface
India recently announced its long-term vision for lunar exploration. The country is looking forward to establishing a base on the moon before 2050. Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) chairman S. Somanath announced while setting out a provisional integrated roadmap for lunar exploration during a Nov. 28 discussion at a symposium planned out by the Indian
SpaceX just launched another batch of its Starlink internet satellites to orbit in the early hours of Thursday (December 7). The batch of 23 Starlink spacecraft stacked atop a Falcon 9 rocket for orbital mission. The liftoff took off from Florida’s Cape Canaveral Space Force Station at 12:07 a.m. EST (0507 GMT). This is SpaceX’s
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NASA recently released a new video revealing how its Mars Perseverance rover collected its youngest rock samples from Mars. Since the rover landed on Mars on Feb. 21, 2021, it has continued to explore the Jezero crater to meet its mission goals. Perseverance rover has collected 23 samples of Martian rocks as of Nov. 2023.
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Astronomers recently discovered a river of hydrogen gas flowing outward from the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds. These are two dwarf galaxies that exist in the outskirts of the Milky Way Galaxy. Researchers revealed that the contents of this river named the Magellanic Stream have amazed them for decades. This is the first time astronomers
