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
OSIRIS-APEX emerged “unscathed” from its closest-ever pass to our sun on January 2, scientists announced on Tuesday (May 28). The probe, originally known as OSIRIS-RExhas completed its monster return mission to the asteroid Bennu and is now headed to the space rock Apophis on an extended mission. That new mission requires OSIRIS-APEX to hover 40 … Read more
Then NASA Juno spacecraft came closest Jupiter‘s moon Europe in September 2022, it captured evidence not only of briny layers of water connected to the world’s deep subsurface ocean, but also of potential scars formed by towering plumes of water vapor – and it captured that evidence on camera The majority of the Juno mission’s … Read more
An artist’s rendering of the BepiColombo mission, a joint ESA/JAXA project, which will take two spacecraft to the harsh environment of Mercury. ESA This week, the European Space Agency posted a somewhat ominous note about its BepiColombo spacecraft, which consists of two orbiters headed to Mercury. The online press release mentioned a “glitch” with the … Read more