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What Can Scientists Learn From The Eclipse?
The Great North American Eclipse of 2024 will offer spectacular views and provide scientists an opportunity to study…
Total solar eclipses provide an opportunity to engage with science, culture and history
Throughout time, eclipses have inspired societies to understand the cosmos and its events. (Shutterstock) Nikhil Arora, Queen’s University,…
India Has Landed On The Moon: Here’s What The Political And Economic Gains Are
Christopher Newman, Northumbria University, Newcastle From the early days of human space activity in the 1960s, missions to…
India Lands Spacecraft Near South Pole Of Moon In Historic First
Vikram lander touches down at lunar south pole shortly after 6pm India time India has become the first…
India Lands A Spacecraft Near The Moon’s South Pole, A First For The World As It Joins Elite Club
NEW DELHI (AP) — India became the first country to land a spacecraft near the moon’s south pole…
Who is Artemis? NASA’s latest mission to the Moon is named after an ancient lunar goddess turned feminist icon
NASA launched the Artemis I moon rocket on the morning of Nov. 16, 2022, after several delays earlier…
NASA’s Artemis 1 mission to the Moon sets the stage for routine space exploration beyond Earth’s orbit – here’s what to expect and why it’s important
NASA’s Space Launch System rocket lifted off from the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida, in the…
Space Exploration Is Still The Brightest Hope-Bringer We Have
I am one of the few African-American aerospace engineers who helped design the Apollo spaceships that took men…
50 Years After Apollo 11, Why Haven’t We Gone Back To The Moon?
Fifty years have passed since the first moon landing on July 20, 1969 by Apollo 11 and the…
Missions To The Moon
Since Neil Armstrong’s first landing, other countries have since sent their own missions to explore the Moon. Over…
Humanity Has Managed To Change Places We’ve Barely Even Visited
From the Mariana Trench to the Moon, we don’t have to be in a place very much to…
Why Getting Back To The Moon Is So Damn Hard
The $20 million Lunar X Prize was supposed to send startups into space. The cost turned out to…
Asgardia: The World’s First ‘Space Nation’, Takes Flight
The world’s first “space nation” has taken flight. On November 12, Asgardia cemented its presence in outer space…