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Crewed missions, lunar bases, Mars rovers, and deep‑space travel plans.
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Türkiye's first lunar spacecraft enters testing phase
37+ min ago (444+ words) Türkiye has transferred its first domestically produced lunar spacecraft to Turkish Aerospace Industries for environmental testing, Industry and Technology Minister Mehmet Fatih Kacir said. The 3.5-metric-ton vessel is scheduled for launch in early 2027 from the Kennedy Space Center. GITEX VP…...
Don't Get Your Hopes Up for a City on the Moon
1+ hour, 3+ min ago (1155+ words) Bezos said we should move heavy industry to the Moon. Musk says we'll have sustainable lunar cities. We know there's ancient water ice in craters on the Moon's poles, but there's not enough water to support a city....
Venus May Have Had a Moon for Nearly 2 Billion Years—Before It Ate It - AOL
5+ day, 10+ hour ago (483+ words) To find out what might have happened if Venus had a moon of its own, a team of scientists ran simulations of the planet with a hypothetical satellite companion. In almost all scenarios, the Venusian moon’s fate was sealed as…...
Russia Landed Venera 12 on Venus on December 21, 1978 and Venera 11 on December 25. Both Survived 870 Degrees Fahrenheit and Roughly 90 Atmospheres of Pressure. Neither Returned a Single Photograph, Because the Lens Caps Failed to Eject on Both.
2+ hour, 13+ min ago (295+ words) Venera 11 and Venera 12 were sent as a pair for redundancy. They shared the same mechanism, so launching two spacecraft simply reproduced the same failure twice....
Venus ate its moon | UCR News | UC Riverside
3+ hour, 44+ min ago (715+ words) Study explains why Earth’s ‘twin’ lacks rocky satellite Scientists have long speculated why Venus, with a similar size, mass, and structure to Earth, doesn’t have a moon. New UC Riverside research shows it’s because our hungry twin likely swallowed it....
Garnet had never been confirmed in a Martian meteorite until researchers examining NWA 8171 at the Royal Ontario Museum found andradite inside a fragment smaller than one millimetre. Some surrounding minerals carry Martian chemistry, but scientists cannot yet tell whether it records an unknown magma, ancient fluid alteration, metamorphism—or debris from an asteroid that struck Mars.
16+ hour, 30+ min ago (766+ words) Andradite in the NWA 8171 Martian breccia is secure, but its tiny host clast could record Martian magma, alteration, metamorphism or material delivered by an impactor. By Deep Field · Edited by Lachlan Brown Published September 14, 2026 · How we edit A rounded grain…...
In 2026, NASA backed scientists make 'microbites' cookies from plastic bottles in vanilla flavour using baker's yeast that could feed astronauts on Mars
17+ hour, 15+ min ago (589+ words) In 2026, NASA backed scientists make 'microbites' cookies from plastic bottles in vanilla flavour using b The Times of India Plastic waste keeps piling up in oceans, landfills, and cities, while millions of people around the world still don't have enough…...
Moon has water for future cities, but it could get a bit grubby
18+ hour ago (67+ words) The Times Moon has water for future cities, but it could get a bit grubby Smaller settlements of about 1,000 people to run factories would allow the lunar water reserves to last far longer than large municipalities £1 for 3 months Enjoy unlimited…...
UI researcher uses NASA rover to find rare mineral on Mars
18+ hour, 20+ min ago (533+ words) A University of Iowa geology professor working with NASA helped discover a rare mineral on the Jezero crater on Mars. Valerie Payré, an Assistant Professor in the School of Earth, Environment, and Sustainability, has been working on the Mars 2020 rover…...
The U.S. Space Academy Is More of a Workforce Bet Than an Astronaut School
1+ day, 16+ min ago (874+ words) The United States has announced a Space Academy, but nobody can apply to it. There is no campus, budget, course catalogue or opening date. President Donald Trump's executive order creates a commission that has 120 days to design the institution and…...