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Three Perseid meteors fall on Mount Etna. A study suggests that NASA's DART mission, which hit an asteroid, could create a meteor shower, called Dimorphic. Credit: Gianni Tumino In 2034, humans could witness the first artificial meteor shower triggered by activity in space. That's according to a new simulation led by Eloy Peña Asensio of
The Boeing Starliner landed at White Sands Spaceport in New Mexico at 12:01 a.m. EDT on Sept. 7. Credit: NASA Boeing’s Starliner safely departed the International Space Station on the evening of Friday, September 6, albeit without its crew, and made a soft landing at White Sands Spaceport in New Mexico at 12:01 a.m. EDT
Artist's rendering of the Lunar Prospector space probe. (Credit: NASA/JPL) On July 31, 1999, human eyes were fixed with great excitement on the Moon's south pole as a spacecraft hurtled toward its destination in an astonishing attempt to discover traces of water on a parched world. Although the Lunar Prospector probe quickly died in a
Back to list of articles The robotic mission marks a historic first for China and could help unravel the mysteries of the Moon's formation. The Chang'e 6 lander sits on the Moon in this image taken by the Jinchan mini-rover. Credit: CNSA On June 25, 2024, China’s Chang’e 6 mission came to an end when
The VIPER, equipped with headlights, would have been the first robotic lunar rover capable of operating at night. Credit: NASA To the surprise of the lunar scientific community, on July 17, NASA… cancelled the long-awaited VIPER (Volatiles Investigating Polar Exploration Rover) mission, which was expected to search for water ice on the Moon, a critical
