Lantern Festival, also known as Lantern Floating Festival or Shangyuan Festival, is a major holiday in China that marks the end of the Lunar New Year. It is celebrated on the 15th day of the first month of the Chinese calendar, which usually falls at the beginning of February or March on the Gregorian calendar.…
Beautiful space photos of Earth were just released by a US-based business that is aiming to become the first commercial company to land a spacecraft on the Moon. Intuitive Machines said on X that the images were captured by their lunar lander subsequent to its separation from the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket. In the images,…
A step closer to its historic moonshot, a private lunar lander has made progress. Today, January 31, the robotic Nova-C spacecraft got prepared for liftoff by being enclosed inside the payload fairing of its SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket. In a call with reporters this afternoon, Trent Martin, vice president for space systems at the Houston-based…
Is Dasher in here? Is that Prancer? It’s an Ursid, not that! It’s important to remember that the Ursid meteor shower will be active in December, so don’t confuse it with a shooting star in the night sky around Christmas. Every year, around the time of the Winter Solstice, when the day grows shorter and…
Another important discovery made with the help of the James Webb Space Telescope is the presence of carbon dioxide in a specific area of Europa’s frozen surface. For life as we know it, carbon is a necessary component. This suggests that the most recent Webb find might represent a significant development in the quest for…
The head of the US space agency said on Thursday that the names of the four astronauts who will fly around the Moon next year—three Americans and one Canadian—will be announced next month. The crew members of the mission known as Artemis 2 would be revealed on April 3, according to NASA administrator Bill Nelson.…
On November 8, the Moon will become blood crimson, allegedly signalling the approach of Ragnarök, the God of War. Thankfully, a total lunar eclipse will provide the benevolent aspect rather than the end of the world as you know it. You think. On November 9, the eagerly anticipated God of War sequel from Santa Monica…
While traversing Von Kármán crater on the far side of the moon, China’s Yutu 2 rover observed a mysterious object on the horizon. According to a Yutu 2 diary published by Our Space, a Chinese language science outreach channel affiliated with the China National Space Administration, Yutu 2 spotted a cube-shaped object on the horizon…