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By the end of this decade, nations and private companies may well be mining the surface of the Moon. But as space becomes accessible to more nations and corporations, we need to stop and ask ourselves what commercial activities we want to allow, including on the Moon. Now is the time to create the rules and…
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Skywatchers will have the opportunity to close out the year by experiencing a rare astronomical event known as the “black moon”. The fascinating-sounding term is often used to describe the second new moon that appears in a single calendar month. It is an occurrence that is not officially recognised in astronomy but over the years,…
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New Delhi: The Earth will embrace a new and temporary ‘mini moon’ tonight, with a connection to India’s epic Mahabharat. Called “2024 PT5” it is just about ten meters in diameter and it will remain in the Earth’s orbit for about 53 days before heading back into the vastness of the solar system. Its size,…
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The six-wheeled 26-kilogram Pragyan moon rover travelled nearly 103 metres. The Moon we see today was once a hot and fiery ball of molten rock a big finding being confirmed by the science team of ISRO’s Chandrayaan-3. The team has published the first scientific results from the instruments that flew to the Moon onboard the…
The story so far: In September 2025, NASA’s four-member Artemis crew is scheduled fly around the moon in preparation for the space agency’s mission to land on the moon again. To boost such scientific missions, the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) on April 2, directed its space agency, the National Aeronautics…
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Intuitive Machines said the next day that human error was to blame for the navigational issue. Odysseus, the first U.S. spacecraft to land on the moon since 1972, neared the end of its fifth day on the lunar surface still operational, but with its battery in its final hours before the vehicle is expected to…
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Odysseus has sent back its first images from farthest south any vessel has ever landed on Moon Washington: An American lunar lander that tipped over during touchdown has sent back its first images from the farthest south any vessel has ever landed on the Moon. The uncrewed Odysseus, built by Houston-based Intuitive Machines, returned the…
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ISRO has hit recent highs, becoming the first nation to land a rover on the moon’s south pole. Bengaluru: When the Indian Space Research Organization’s (ISRO) Chandrayaan-3 mission landed on the moon, more than 8 million people tuned in for the event’s YouTube live-stream – a record for the site. The landing was a win…
Chandrayaan-1 played a crucial role in the discovery of water molecules on the Moon New Delhi: Scientists analysing the remote sensing data from India’s Chandrayaan-1 lunar mission have found that high energy electrons from the Earth may be forming water on the Moon. The team led by researchers from the University of Hawai’i (UH) at…
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The story so far: Scripting history, the Chandrayaan-3 lander landed in the south polar region of the moon on August 23 at 6:03 pm IST, making India the first country to successfully soft-land in that area. The Vikram lander along with the Pragyan rover have since completed a small suite of surface tests. China’s Yutu-2…
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