NASA Rockets Set to Probe the Moon’s Shadow During Upcoming Eclipse

As the Moon wedges itself between Earth and Sun, temporarily dimming the day’s light over parts of our planet, three rockets will take to the skies to observe how those brief moments of darkness affect Earth’s upper atmosphere. Rebecca Hall on Filming Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire On April 8, NASA will launch three … Read more

Astronomers Demand Radio Silence at the Moon’s Far Side, But Resistance May Be Futile

In the current era of spaceflight, the Moon is arguably the place to be. International space agencies and private companies alike are racing to the lunar surface, hoping to establish a permanent presence on Earth’s natural satellite that would propel them to farther celestial pitstops. All that increased activity on the Moon may affect the … Read more

China Launches Satellite to Assist Exploration of Moon’s Far Side

China launched a lunar satellite designed to play a critical role in its competition with the U.S. to be the leader in exploration of the moon. The Queqiao-2 relay satellite went into orbit aboard a Long March-8 rocket at 8:31 a.m. Beijing time from the Wenchang launch site in southern China’s Hainan province, according to … Read more

Trouble Already for Odysseus at the Moon’s South Pole

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New Moons Discovered Around Uranus and Neptune

Astronomers found a new moon orbiting Uranus, as well as two around Neptune. The tiny satellites appeared as faint specks in the outer reaches of the solar system following hours of ground-based observations. Dave Bautista Opens Up About His Relationship With Denis Villeneuve Using observatories in Chile and Hawaii, Scott Sheppard, an astronomer at the … Read more

Are we about to find out the moon’s origin? Japan’s space agency says it may now have clues

TOKYO — TOKYO (AP) — An unmanned lunar spacecraft has captured and transmitted data analyzing 10 lunar rocks, a greater-than-expected achievement that could help provide clues about the origin of the moon, a Japan space agency official said Wednesday. For four days, the Smart Lander for Investigating Moon, or SLIM — which landed on the … Read more

Patti Smith Honors Killers of the Flower Moon’s Lily Gladstone at National Board of Review Gala

At its paramount, the merging of art and activism provides the people with revolutionizing truth, exposing what must be exposed and raising up what must be raised. Martin Scorsese’s film Killers of the Flower Moon presents an abysmal shard of American history, confronting our conscience with the collective experience of Indigenous People globally. It pierces … Read more

Rebel Moon’s Ed Skrein on Co-Starring With His Game of Thrones Replacement

Fans of Game of Thrones will remember that a key character, hunky sellsword Daario Naharis, looked rather different in season four after debuting in season three—and now the two actors who played him, Ed Skrein and Michiel Huisman, are sharing the screen in Zack Snyder’s new Netflix film Rebel Moon. Spoilers of the Week Feb … Read more

Japanese spacecraft reaches moon’s orbit, beams back images

After more than three months of whizzing through space, Japan’s lunar lander arrived at the moon on Christmas. The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency — NASA’s Japanese counterpart known as JAXA for short — announced that its moon mission had achieved a major milestone on Dec. 25, successfully inserting into an oval-shaped orbit around the lunar … Read more

Firefly to Deliver Water-Hunting SPIDER to Moon’s Far Side

A new payload has been added to Firefly’s upcoming mission to the far side of the Moon, one that will explore the lunar subsurface to find out if it can support future infrastructure. The New M3-Powered iMacs Are Triggering Serious Deja Vu Australia’s Fleet Space Technologies is launching its SPIDER (Seismic Payload for Interplanetary Discovery, … Read more