On the third day after lifting off from Florida bound for the Moon, the Orion spacecraft is "exceeding performance expectations," NASA officials said on Friday.
Space Exploration
Nov 19, 2022
11
1420
NASA's moon rocket needs only minor repairs after enduring a hurricane at the pad and is on track for its first test flight next week, a top official said Friday.
Space Exploration
Nov 12, 2022
0
49
Kneeling on the edge of a deep crater, astronaut Alexander Gerst uses a chisel to collect a sample of volcanic rock which he carefully puts inside a white plastic bag.
Space Exploration
Nov 12, 2022
0
92
Better catch the moon's disappearing act Tuesday—there won't be another like it for three years.
Space Exploration
Nov 7, 2022
0
1249
NASA's moon rocket is back on the pad for another launch attempt, following more repairs.
Space Exploration
Nov 4, 2022
1
319
There are several theories about how Earth and its moon were formed, most involving a giant impact. Now scientists at the University of Leeds and the University of Chicago have analyzed the dynamics of fluids and electrically ...
Planetary Sciences
Nov 2, 2022
5
367
It's known that water ice exists below the lunar regolith (broken rock and dust), but scientists don't yet understand whether surface ice frost covers the floors inside these cold craters. To find out, NASA is sending Lunar ...
Space Exploration
Oct 28, 2022
2
251
A group of animal biologists and chemists at the Institute of Transformative Bio-Molecules (ITbM) at Nagoya University in central Japan, in collaboration with Toyota Boshoku Corporation and Niigata University, have identified ...
Ecology
Oct 27, 2022
0
274
In the search for life beyond Earth, icy ocean moons like Jupiter's Europa and Saturn's Enceladus are promising possibilities that host potentially habitable environments. Evidence of these environments—and of possible ...
Astrobiology
Oct 20, 2022
0
30
Active volcanic activity helped create the moon's surface minerology as recently as 2 billion years ago, leaving an iron-rich and high-calcium surface of basalts geographically younger than the lunar geology community previously ...
Planetary Sciences
Oct 20, 2022
0
30
