NASA Opens Sealed Apollo Moon Sample Since 1972

NASA Opens Sealed Apollo Moon Sample Since 1972

As far as Claret goes, 1972 was a A bleak year for world-famous wine. But NASA is confident that the Taurus Litro Valley on the moon did not suffer the same rainy growing season as Bordeaux, France, that year. US space agency Getting ready to get rid of A very special vessel, not wine, but … Read more

SpaceX’s first planet launches a step closer as NASA begins assembling ‘Europa Clipper’

SpaceX's first planet launches a step closer as NASA begins assembling 'Europa Clipper'

NASA says assembly of the Europa Clipper has begun at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), in Southern California. Europa Clipper is an interplanetary spacecraft developed by NASA to monitor Europa, a large moon of Jupiter, on a series of flybys while orbiting the gas giant. Clipper’s primary goal is to determine whether Europa hosts conditions … Read more

NASA prepares to launch Artemis 1 mission next week

NASA prepares to launch Artemis 1 mission next week

Teams begin to pull out the “kitchen drawer” platforms surrounding the first rocket that will launch NASA’s Artemis mission toward the moon. Pulling back the platforms surrounding the massive Space Launch System (SLS) rocket at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center (KSC) in Florida is an essential step to send the rocket and spacecraft safely to the … Read more

China wants its new astronaut launch rocket to be reusable

China wants its new astronaut launch rocket to be reusable

China is planning a next-generation Crew Launch Vehicle to carry out missions to its space station and the moon to have a reusable first stage. The new rocket will allow for a reusable launch option to send astronauts or cargo to New China tiangong space stationwhile the larger version would allow China to send crew … Read more

A fossil reveals the secrets of one of nature’s most mysterious reptiles

A fossil reveals the secrets of one of nature's most mysterious reptiles

New Zealand’s tuatara look like gloomy iguanas. But these spiny reptiles are not actually lizards. Instead, they are the last remnants of a mysterious and ancient order of reptiles known as Rhynchocephalians that mostly disappeared after their heyday in the Jurassic period. And they are truly the peculiar balls of the family of reptiles. Tuataras … Read more