Japan's space authorities say that a ship of this country has successfully landed on the surface of the moon, making this country the fifth country to go to the moon after the United States, Russia, China and India.
A scientist said, NASA is looking to develop resources on the moon that initially include oxygen and water, and eventually may expand to iron and rare earths.
A satellite built for NASA and the French space agency Centre National d’Études Spatiales (CNES) to observe nearly all the water on our planet’s surface lifted off on its way to low-Earth orbit on Friday.
NASA’s DART spacecraft slammed itself into a distant asteroid in a test of the world’s first planetary defense system, designed to prevent a potential doomsday meteorite collision with Earth.
According to the company and a live video stream of the mission. A rocket from Jeff Bezos’ space company Blue Origin failed mid-flight shortly after liftoff on Monday, aborting its cargo capsule to safety before crashing into the Texas desert.
Ground teams at Kennedy Space Center prepared on Saturday for a second try at launching NASA’s towering, next-generation moon rocket on its debut flight, hoping to have remedied engineering problems that foiled the initial countdown five days earlier.
James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), the world’s largest and most powerful space telescope by NASA, has suffered massive damage from a micrometeoroid strike in late May.
NASA will launch three rockets within weeks from northern Australia for scientific research, authorities said on Wednesday, marking the first time the space agency will fire rockets from a commercial facility outside the United States.