This week, NASA revealed that the first stage of its grand project to construct a small nuclear reactor on the Moon that could produce electricity and be utilized for future Moon missions and outposts is coming to an end.
According to a recent study by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), the Moon's size has been decreasing over the previous 100 million years. Additionally, this has caused previously unheard-of moonquakes.
Landing within 100 meters (330 feet) of a designated landing spot was the aim of the unmanned Smart Lander for Investigating Moon (SLIM), also known as the "Moon Sniper" due to its pin-point technology.
The Kennedy Space Center and Cape Canaveral Space Force Station are located on Florida's Space Coast, which is expected to break the recently set 2023 annual record of 72 orbital rocket launches this year. The majority of these missions will be carried out by SpaceX's reliable Falcon 9.
Opening the aluminum canister that held fragments of an ancient space rock has finally shown the majority of the asteroid Bennu sample in all its splendor.
Oxygen was surprisingly abundant in the early Universe, according to new findings from the James Webb Space Telescope. Within 500–700 million years of the universe's creation, oxygen levels in galaxies increased to levels similar to those found in modern galaxies, according to research. This implies that life as we know it today existed much earlier than previously thought.
A strange celestial object has been observed by astronomers; it may be the lightest black hole or the heaviest neutron star ever found, or it may be entirely unidentified.
Minister of Union Civil Aviation Jyotiraditya Scindia predicts that India's domestic air travel market will experience an unprecedented boom, with passenger numbers expected to double from the current 153 million to 300 million by 2030. At Wings India 2024, a civil aviation conclave and exhibition held in Hyderabad, the minister made this prediction during its inaugural session.
The world's first lunar space station, called Gateway, will be built and launched by NASA in collaboration with the Mohammed bin Rashid Space Centre in the United Arab Emirates. MBRSC will provide one of the most important components of the space station, a cutting-edge air lock module.
In order to take advantage of the satellite internet constellation in low Earth orbit (LEO) that is Starlink, a product of the American aerospace company, South Korean cellular services provider LG Uplus Corp. will collaborate with Space Exploration Technologies Corp., also referred to as Space X. Future alternatives with unlimited coverage are frequently mentioned, such as LEO satellites and satellite cellular services.