According to a story on Leonard David’s blog, Chinese space officials recently released new images of the Moon that are focused on the landing site of the country’s future Chang’e 5 lunar lander. Target date for China’s ambitious robotic Moon probe mission...
Multiple partner nations involved on the International Space Station are developing robots in space. Photo Credit: Jacques van Oene / SpaceFlight Insider On Monday, Sept. 7, Danish European Space Agency (ESA) astronaut Andreas Mogensen, for the first time, performed...
An illustration of the Optical Payload for Lasercomm Science (OPALS) laser beaming data to Earth. Photo Credit: NASA NASA spacecraft may soon be able to beam their data home to Earth blazingly fast — with lasers! In space, a slow data connection means more than just...
Some of the moon soil collected by Apollo astronauts has deteriorated significantly during its four-plus decades on Earth, a new study reports. Scientists found that the median particle size in a set of 20 different Apollo soil samples held in laboratories for...
Credit: American Geophysical Union It was a “crazy-looking crater” on the face of Mars that caught Ali Bramson’s eye. But it was a simple calculation that explained the crater’s strange shape. Combining data gleaned from two powerful instruments...
Credit: ‘Imiloa Space exploration, our greatest adventure, is having a big impact on our lives. It is helping us to discover a universe of unimaginable scale and beauty, and it is reaching down into our world and influencing the way we live. To Space & Back...
