The long-running mystery of the origin of the Martian moons may be about to be solved. A space probe has approached tens of kilometers from the larger of the two satellite brothers…
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NASA’s lunar flashlight ready to search for water ice on the Moon
This illustration shows NASA’s lunar flashlight above the Moon. The SmallSat mission will have a very elongated orbit, taking it less than 15 kilometers above the lunar south pole to search for…
Mars Express got so close to Phobos it had to be reprogrammed to keep the Moon in focus
Let’s talk about Phobos. We know it is a Mars moon and orbits the planet once every 7.4 hours. It has a huge impact crater called Stickney. It measures about 9 km…
Discover glowing planets and a rare ‘fireball swarm’ as the ‘blood moon’ calls to you: what’s in the night sky this week?
The peak of the 2022 Taurid meteor shower is expected to include a rare outburst. Getty Every Monday, I select the northern hemisphere celestial high points (mid-northern latitudes) for the coming week,…
Images: NASA’s Lucy spacecraft offers new views of the moon
Single image of the lunar central highlands Credit: NASA/Goddard/SwRI/JHU-APL/Tod R. Lauer (NOIRLab) NASA’s Lucy spacecraft captured this image of the moon’s surface on October 16, 2022, about 6.5 hours after it flew…
Apex Legends designers shake up their battle royale with a massive shattered moon
Apex LegendsThe 15th season, Eclipse, will delve deeper into the lore of one of its most popular characters by establishing the origins of its most recent. That’s because the Apex Games are…
Artemis Accords: An Alliance to Take the World, Not Just the United States, to the Moon and Beyond
But the second great space race isn’t expected to look much like the first from the 1960s. So to speak, it won’t be one or two superpowers battling it out for space…
Plants that ‘come back from the dead’ could be key to growing on the moon
Unique plants that can “come back from the dead” and survive extreme weather conditions could be the key to growing in space. Known as resurrection plants, these rare organisms can survive without…
Our moon has been slowly moving away from Earth over the past 2.5 billion years
This article was originally published on The conversation. (opens in a new tab) The publication contributed the article to Space.com’s Expert Voices: Editorials and Perspectives. Joshua Davies (opens in a new tab)Professor…