There are two massive asteroids that will fly past Earth this week. Asteroid (415029) 2011 UL21 Size: Approximately 7,600 feet long Distance from Earth: It will pass by Earth at a distance of more than four million miles (over 17 times further than our moon). Visibility: Visible with small telescopes through Sunday, appearing brightest on Friday. AsteroidRead More →
Intuitive Machines initially reported Odysseus was standing upright. But in an update on Friday 23rd February 2024, the company reported they believe the spacecraft caught its landing gear sideways in the moon’s surface while touching down and tipped over. Intuitive Machines’ cargo lander, Odysseus, returned its first images from the moon’sRead More →
A U.S. company has gone to the moon – and creates a little piece of history Intuitive Machines’ Nova-C cargo lander, named ‘Odysseus’ after the mythological Greek hero, is the first U.S. spacecraft to soft land on the lunar surface since 1972. Japan, India and China have all had recentRead More →
Alien dust samples from the ‘most dangerous known rock in the Solar System’ have been brought to Earth. NASA safely landed the probe with the capsule containing the precious space dust in the West Desert of Utah state. The samples had been collected up from the surface of asteroid BennuRead More →
NASA mission Osiris-Rex is a NASA mission that aims to collect and return a sample from asteroid Bennu, which is believed to be a remnant of the early solar system. The mission hopes to learn more about the origins of life on Earth and the potential for asteroid mining in theRead More →
Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP) NASA has recently released a report on Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP), which is another term for UFOs. The report is based on a yearlong study of hundreds of UAP sightings by scientists and data experts. In brief NASA found no evidence that aliens are behind theRead More →
Japan launched a rocket on 7th September 2023 carrying an X-ray telescope that will explore the origins of the universe and a small lunar lander. The launch of the HII-A rocket from Tanegashima Space Centre in southwestern Japan was shown live by the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA). Thirteen minutesRead More →
Inspirational achievement, as India becomes only the fourth country in the world to successfully land on the moon and the first at the south pole India became a new national superpower in space on 23rd August 2023, landing its Chandrayaan-3 mission safely on the moon’s unexplored south pole. The Chandrayaan-3Read More →