When we think about craters on the Moon, we usually think of ones that can be seen with a telescope or in images sent by spacecraft around the Moon. But there are also ones we can only see with a ...

A space mission is an immensely complex undertaking. Hundreds to thousands of experts from several distinct fields come together to build the thousands of parts and functions of a spacecraft. To ...

For most of the 20th century, scientists thought the Moon’s surface was bone-dry. The 382 kilograms of rock and soil samples brought by the Apollo missions to Earth attested to this. When they did ...

Here’s an attempt at a neutral overview of India’s first Mars mission and its actual impact, one which doesn’t stick to its cost effectiveness at any cost. ISRO originally intended to launch ...

The AxEMU suit that Artemis III astronauts will wear on the Moon during excursions. Image: AxiomSpace Illustration of the Lunar Pathfinder communications satellite relaying signals between Earth and ...

The real Lord of the Rings is Saturn, a massive outer planet boasting a set of rings about 27 Earths wide. Being a gas giant like Jupiter, Saturn shares many of its attributes: a strong magnetic field ...

Here are plenty of curated external resources to marvel at our cosmic neighbor. Many of my headlines make little sense to Google, Web Search Engines, and for SEO. For example, I titled Moon Monday ...

On September 18, the Indian Government Union Cabinet approved ISRO’s proposed Venus Orbiter Mission (VOM) with a budget of about $150 million. The different pathways Venus might have taken to become ...

When dabbling with the laws of motion in the 17th century, Isaac Newton first realized that it’s indeed possible to send an object out of Earth, into space. As long as an object is shot away from ...

Unlike the millions of years it takes for most mountains on Earth to form, lunar mountains crop out near-instantly, geologically speaking. Earth’s mountains primarily form when two colliding plates of ...

For all our abilities, humans are puny creatures on the scale of space. The Universe we exist in is just too vast and beyond our intuitive contemplation. As we start the new year with wishes and ...

July 4, 2022 will mark 25 years since NASA landed the Pathfinder spacecraft on Mars. It was the first Mars landing in about two decades, following the agency’s successful Viking 1 and 2 missions.