China aims to launch its Chang’e 7 moon mission on Aug. 24 to send a lander, a rover, a hopper and a wide range of science experiments to the lunar south pole.
“Even a bootprint or a rover’s tread may create a habitable area.”
Europe’s Mars Express orbiter has captured stunning telemetry to create a new flyover visualization of the Red Planet’s Southern Highlands and Schiaparelli Crater in magnificent detail.
This geologic feature has been mesmerizing astronauts since 1965.
NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter has spotted the crater gouged out on the moon by a SpaceX rocket on Aug. 5, finding it to be about 60 feet (18 meters) wide.
On this day in space, Aug. 17, 1877: American astronomer Asaph Hall discovered Mars’s moon Phobos.
The wildfires ripping across North America have created massive plumes of smoke.
New chronology, data about the moon’s far side and a homegrown cartographic standard signal China’s ambitions for how the solar system gets mapped.
We need rules to prevent space companies from dumping their old rockets onto the moon’s surface in the future, experts say.