Above: Artist rendering of the Luna 2 spacecraft shortly before impacting the Moon’s surface. Credit: Nick Stevens. September 13 marks a historic day in space travel when the Soviet ‘Luna 2’ spacecraft became the first man-made object to reach the...
China’s ‘Jade Rabbit’ Moon rover (aka ‘Yutu’) departs from the Chang’e-3 lunar lander in December, 2013, marking the first soft landing on the moon’s surface in 40 years. Credit: CNSA/CCTV. China has just released photos of the Moon taken by...
Above: The first completed Orion spacecraft mounted atop its service module, pictured at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Credit: NASA/Rad Sinyak. The Orion spacecraft is NASA’s first spacecraft designed for deep-space missions, and will carry...
Computer generated graphic of the “Laniakea Supercluster”, a massive formation of countless galaxies including our own – the Milky Way. Image: Nature Publishing Group. Picture this: there is Earth, then our Solar System, then our Milky Way Galaxy,...
Photo taken of China’s Chang’e-3 Moon lander which made a historic lunar touchdown in December of 2013. Credit: CAS China has announced that it will attempt another historic feat in 2017, this time with the Chang’e-5’s mission to return lunar...
