Testing is now underway on NASA’s Dragonfly rotorcraft, a nuclear-powered, car-sized aerial drone that will look for potential precursors to life on Saturn’s moon, Titan. But before Dragonfly can take to the sky, NASA...
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Chunks of the moon may blast into space and become near-Earth asteroids, a new study suggests. The finding confirms previous research showing that near-Earth asteroid Kamo’oalewa is a piece of the moon. That 2021 link to...
Russia says it knows what caused the failure of its first moon shot in nearly 50 years. The Luna-25 lander — the first Soviet or Russian moon probe since Luna-24 in 1976 — crashed into the moon on Aug. 19, during a...
The Smart Lander for Investigating Moon (SLIM) spacecraft performed an engine burn to leave Earth orbit on Saturday (Sept. 30), the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) announced today (Oct. 2). SLIM fired its main engine...
After a groundbreaking two-week mission, India’s robotic explorers are fast asleep in the frigid darkness of the moon’s south pole region. Whether they’ll wake up when the sun shines down on them at the end of...