After its successful landing on the moon, the Odysseus spacecraft will go down in history! It took the quick thinking of ground engineers and a critical intervention from a NASA payload for NASA's private lander to accomplish the historic lunar landing on Thursday, which was the first such feat by an American craft in more than 50 years. The commercial company Intuitive Machines (IM), which created the Nova-C lander, has also been positioned as the first private venture to successfully land on the moon as a result of this success.
In an effort to replicate what it would be like to live on the Red Planet, NASA is looking for volunteers for its second simulated Mars mission, which will run for one year.
SpaceX launched its Falcon 9 rocket from the West Coast this week after several weather-related postponements. On Friday, February 9, at 4:34 p.m. PST (7:34 p.m. EST, 0034 UTC), the rocket supporting the Starlink 7–13 mission took off.
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.