Hector Retamal/AFP/Getty Images/File The Long March 5 rocket carrying the Chang’e-6 lunar probe was launched on May 3, 2024 from the Wenchang Space Launch Center in South China’s Hainan province. Hong-Kong CNN — China’s Chang’e-6 lunar lander successfully landed on the far side of the moon on Sunday morning, Beijing time, in a key step … Read more
Omer Tarsuslu/Anadolu/Getty Images Scientists say a lunar timescale is needed for astronauts to return to the moon, which will be visible in the sky in the evening hours of Kars, Turkey, on May 18. Editor’s note: A version of this story appeared in CNN’s science newsletter Wonder Theory. To receive it in your inbox, Register … Read more
Japanese billionaire Yusaku Maezawa will not shoot to the moon with SpaceX’s Starship after all. Maezawa, who booked a private trip around the moon in 2018 on SpaceX’s Starship mega-rocket, has now scrapped the project – which he called dearMoon – after the rocket wasn’t ready to fly him and eight hand-picked artists in 2023. … Read more
Enlarge / Elon Musk speaks as Yusaku Maezawa, founder and president of Start Today Co., looks on at an event at SpaceX headquarters in Hawthorne, California, in 2018. Patrick T. Fallon/Bloomberg via Getty Images On Friday evening, the DearMoon project – a plan to launch a Japanese billionaire and ten other “crew members” on a … Read more
The full Strawberry Moon sets behind the Statue of Liberty before sunrise on June 4, 2023 in Nieuw … [+] York city. (Photo by Gary Hershorn/Getty Images) Getty Images June is when the nights are shortest in the Northern Hemisphere, but also when stargazing becomes easier. Camping trips, vacations and more time outdoors naturally increase … Read more
Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. Explore the universe with news about fascinating discoveries, scientific developments and more. CNN — Astronomers were in for a surprise when NASA’s Lucy mission flew past an asteroid called Dinkinesh in November and spotted a contact binary star — two smaller space rocks touching each other — … Read more
Getty Images Eating well is crucial for a successful space mission (Credit: Getty Images) The moon may be humanity’s final frontier, but what will we eat when we get there? Pasta and protein bars made from scratch are just the beginning. Space fever is approaching at warp speed. Over the next two years, NASA plans … Read more
A US Senate committee heard from the head of NASA what the nature of a development mission means: sometimes you have to wait. NASA Administrator Bill Nelson, while aware of what he calls a “space race” with China to establish a sustainable presence on the moon, said Thursday (May 23) that he will only commit … Read more
Mars’ moon Phobos could be a comet — or at least part of it — that was captured by the Red Planet’s gravity long ago, according to a new preprint study based on previously unpublished images. For years, researchers have puzzled over the origins of Phobos and its twin brother, Deimos. Some have theorized that … Read more
Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. Explore the universe with news about fascinating discoveries, scientific developments and more. CNN — To those who have gathered throughout the centuries at Stonehenge – the imposing prehistoric monument that knew it dominated the Salisbury Plain in south-west England for some 4,500 years – it was probably … Read more