Latest astronomy and mission updates

10+ min ago   (1502+ words) As longer nights draw in over the fall, we see the return of some stargazing favorites, including the Andromeda Galaxy, the Pleiades star cluster and the first supermoon of the season. With fall now upon us, many of us will…...

1+ hour, 56+ min ago   (60+ words) Global Intel Hub — Knoxville, TN — SpaceX is now public and many are wondering what are the realistic expectations for the company to do just sNo visits yet Project Horizon – The Army's Moon Base that never was – Free News - Where voices…...

2+ hour, 25+ min ago   (533+ words) New research indicates that Mercury, the solar system’s smallest planet, might be contracting more dramatically than previously understood — similar to how a grape shrivels into a raisin when exposed to heat. A team from the German Aerospace Center’s Institute of…...

51+ min ago   (132+ words) Explanation: This sight was worth getting out of bed early. Just over four years ago, Comet C/2020 F3 (NEOWISE) rose before dawn to the delight of northern sky enthusiasts awake that early. Up before sunrise on July 8th, the featured photographer was…...

1+ hour, 50+ min ago   (371+ words) Kaguya, named after a moon princess, captured the first-ever HD video and images of the moon. On Sept. 13, 2007, Japan launched the Kaguya spacecraft on a mission to the moon. Formally known as SELENE, which is short for SELenological and ENgineering…...

2+ hour, 20+ min ago   (565+ words) Futura, le média qui explore le monde Why the search for alien life might start in lunar soil A different kind of technosignature Searching for radio signals assumes alien civilizations are broadcasting at the precise moment humanity is listening. Pinault’s…...

10+ hour, 35+ min ago   (446+ words) srpske.rs Tomorrow morning, Monday, September 14, the Moon will block Venus, the second planet from the Sun, for a little over an hour The event happens in the middle of the day, against a blue sky, and is visible from…...

4+ hour, 27+ min ago   (623+ words) Scientists have found a vast hidden heat imbalance inside Mars, with the southern interior hundreds of degrees hotter than the north and possibly partially molten. Scientists have discovered a major temperature imbalance deep inside Mars, with the planet’s southern interior…...

6+ hour, 23+ min ago   (274+ words) An expert on Mars has given a lecture in central Japan to raise awareness of a Japanese project to explore one of the red planet's satellites. The MMX, or Martian Moons eXploration probe, has been designed to land on the…...

1+ hour, 19+ min ago   (552+ words) Scientists thought they'd finally found signs of flowing water on Mars, a discovery decades in the making. What's actually carving those channels turns out to be far stranger, and far colder, than anyone expected. Mars continues to surprise scientists with…...