The Minor Planet Centre has just announced that the Earth has been orbited by a second moon for the past three years or so. But while excitement about the discovery is growing, it is important to keep in mind that this moon ...
Space Exploration
Feb 27, 2020
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A RUDN University mathematician has developed a method for finding low-cost quasi-optimal trajectories of flight from Earth orbit to the moon for spacecraft with an electric propulsion engine. The trajectories calculated ...
Mathematics
Feb 12, 2020
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Europe and NASA's Solar Orbiter rocketed into space Sunday night on an unprecedented mission to capture the first pictures of the sun's elusive poles.
Space Exploration
Feb 10, 2020
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Even by the wild standards of the outer solar system, the strange orbits that carry Neptune's two innermost moons are unprecedented, according to newly published research.
Astronomy
Nov 15, 2019
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A NASA satellite orbiting the Moon passed over the site where the Indian probe Vikram should have made touchdown earlier this month, but didn't see the missing lander, the US space agency said.
Space Exploration
Sep 27, 2019
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A new NASA out-of-this-world animation allows humanity to experience their closest galactic neighbor as never before through an online "CGI moon kit."
Space Exploration
Sep 9, 2019
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India's space agency says the landing module of the country's unmanned moon mission has separated from the orbiter ahead of its planned touchdown on the moon's south polar region this weekend.
Space Exploration
Sep 2, 2019
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It's brilliant news. In just over a decade, there will be two spacecraft exploring one of the most habitable worlds in the solar system—Jupiter's moon Europa. That's thanks to a recent announcement by NASA that the orbiter ...
Space Exploration
Aug 28, 2019
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The agency that sent humans to the moon 50 years ago is offering $7 billion to take the first steps for a U.S. return to the lunar surface within five years.
Space Exploration
Aug 27, 2019
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India's Chandrayaan-2 spacecraft has settled into lunar orbit, ahead of its scheduled moon landing on September 7. If it succeeds India will join a very select club, now comprising the former Soviet Union, the United States ...
Space Exploration
Aug 22, 2019
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