NASA: Asteroid 2024 YR4 – Moon collision risk remains low
- 27-Nov-2025
WASHINGTON: NASA and the European Space Agency (ESA) are closely tracking asteroid 2024 YR4, whose projected path brings it near the Moon in 2032. While early projections raised concerns, current calculations indicate a 4 percent chance of a lunar impact—and NASA stresses that the asteroid is highly unlikely to strike the Moon. According to ESA […]
Oman to host unique moon/mars mission
- 08-Oct-2025
MUSCAT: Oman will serve as the location for a special Moon/Mars analog mission, involving 17 simulated habitats across five continents, running from October 13 to 26, 2025, officials said. Mission Coordination will be provided by the Austrian Space Forum in Vienna, Austria, a private space research institution. For the first time, 17 institutions simulating Moon/Mars […]
What Planet Is Next to the Moon Tonight?
- 19-Sep-2025
Tonight, September 19, 2025, Venus will appear strikingly close to the waning crescent moon in the pre-dawn sky, joined by the bright star Regulus in a stunning celestial conjunction. This event, where two or more celestial bodies seem to align closely from Earth’s perspective, offers a breathtaking sight for skywatchers across the U.S. Science and […]
WATCH: ispace, Firefly launch commercial moon landers
- 15-Jan-2025
ORLANDO, Florida/TOKYO: Two moon landers, one from Japan’s ispace and another from US space firm Firefly, began their journeys into space on Wednesday with SpaceX’s unusual double moonshot launch, underscoring the global rush to examine the lunar surface. Japanese moon exploration company ispace launched its Hakuto-R Mission 2, making its second attempt to land on […]
China tests building Moon base with lunar soil bricks
- 15-Nov-2024
China is expected to push forward in its quest to build the first lunar base on Friday, launching an in-space experiment to test whether the station’s bricks could be made from the Moon’s own soil. Brick samples will blast off aboard a cargo rocket heading for China’s Tiangong space station, part of Beijing’s mission to […]
Chinese scientists find water in lunar soil samples
- 24-Jul-2024
Chinese scientists have found water molecules in lunar soil for the first time, a discovery that could be fundamental for understanding how the moon evolved and how to exploit its resources. Chinese scientists studying moon have discovered water molecules in lunar soil for the first time, a discovery that can offer new clues to how […]
PMD issues latest update about Muharram moon
- 06-Jul-2024
KARACHI: The Pakistan Meteorological Department (PMD) on Saturday shared details about the birth of the Muharram moon and when it could be sighted. The Pakistan Meteorological Department (PMD) said that the Muharram “moon is not likely to be seen today”. PMD, in its statement issued on June 20, said that the new moon of Muharram […]
China’s Chang’e-6 moon probe lands back on Earth
- 25-Jun-2024
China’s Chang’e-6 lunar probe landed on Tuesday in the northern Chinese region of Inner Mongolia, making the country the first to bring back samples from the moon’s far side. The reentry capsule touched down at 2:07 p.m. Beijing time (0607 GMT), according to state broadcaster CCTV, carrying lunar soil collected earlier in the month by […]
China lunar probe takes off from Moon carrying samples
- 04-Jun-2024
A module of a Chinese lunar probe successfully took off from the far side of the Moon on Tuesday carrying samples to be taken back to Earth, state media reported. The achievement is a world first, and the latest leap for Beijing’s decades-old space programme, which aims to send a crewed mission to the Moon […]
NASA plans to run trains on moon
- 13-May-2024
The American space agency NASA shared details about a railway system it plans to build on the surface of the moon. “We want to build the first lunar railway system, which will provide reliable, autonomous, and efficient payload transport on the Moon,” robotics expert Ethan Schaler of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif. said. […]