The moon Io is home to 400 volcanoes, which blast lava and plumes in seemingly continuous eruptions. Scientists with NASA’s Juno mission to Jupiter have discovered that the volcanoes on Jupiter’s moon Io are each likely powered by their own chamber of roiling hot magma rather than an ocean of magma. RELATED: NASA Performs First […]

Launched in 2023, Juice has an eight-year cruise with flybys of Earth and Venus to slingshot it to Jupiter. On Wednesday, the European Space Agency (ESA) informed that Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (Juice) has successfully completed the world’s first lunar-Earth flyby, using the gravity of Earth to send it Venus-bound, on a shortcut to Jupiter […]

On Friday, China launched the Chang’e-6 spacecraft to collect and return samples from the moon’s far side — the first endeavor of its kind in the history of human lunar exploration. RELATED: Russia successfully launches Angara-A5 cargo rocket A Long March-5 rocket, carrying the Chang’e-6 spacecraft, blasted off from its launchpad at the Wenchang Space […]

On Wednesday, the China National Space Administration (CNSA) announced that the Chang’e-6 lunar probe is scheduled for launch on May 3. RELATED:  Luna-25 Spacecraft Crashes Into the Moon The probe is set to collect samples from the far side of the moon, making this mission the first of its kind in human history. At present, […]

On Thursday, U.S. company Intuitive Machines’ first lunar lander touched down on the Moon, marking the first American spacecraft to land on the lunar surface in 51 years. RELATED:  US Launches New Private Astronaut Mission to Space Station The uncrewed lander, named Odysseus, landed at the lunar South Pole at 6:23 p.m. Eastern Time. After troubleshooting […]

The first U.S. private moon landing mission suffered an anomaly following its launch from the U.S. state of Florida early Monday. RELATED:  Mexican Micro Robots Set Out on a Mission to the Moon A new rocket developed by U.S. space launch company United Launch Alliance lifted off at 02:18 a.m. Eastern Time Monday from Cape […]

On Monday, the Vulcan Centaur rocket took off from Florida with micro robots from the “Colmena Project,” an initiative led by researchers from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). RELATED: Farm-Free Food May Help to Overcome Climate Crisis: UC Irvine The U.S. company United Launch Alliance (ULA) launched the rocket with the Peregrine module loaded with instruments […]