India’s Chandrayaan-3 spacecraft has successfully landed on the Moon, beating Russia’s ill-fated Luna-25 in the race to the lunar south pole, where scientists suspect that water might be found locked away in the region’s rocks, a discovery that may be confirmed by the probe’s lunar rover. This achievement makes Indiaread more
A pair of rogue researchers with the University of Maryland are predicting that the upcoming solar cycle is going to be a doozy, a forecast that contradicts the commonly-accepted prediction that solar cycle 25 will be one of the quietest in over a century. After studying sunspot activity from data gatheredread more
NASA’s high-flying SOFIA telescope has detected the presence of water on the sunlit surface of the Moon. This development may make manned missions to our closest neighbor all the easier, as astronauts bound for the lunar surface won’t have to lug as much of the heavy yet supremely vital substanceread more
The Israeli and Indian space programs may have suffered setbacks with the recent loss of their lunar landers, but China’s Yutu-2 rover is still crawling across the surface of the Moon, and it made an odd discovery recently. On July 28, Yutu-2 stumbled upon a perplexing sight: shortly before poweringread more