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“If NASA establishes a permanent presence on the moon, its astronauts’ homes could be made of a new 3D-printable, waterless concrete,” writes MIT Technology Review. “Someday, so might yours.
“By accelerating the curing process for more rapid construc… Continue reading For Moon Missions, Researchers Test a 3D-Printable, Waterless Concrete
An asteroid named 2024 PT5, recently exhibiting “mini moon” behavior around Earth, may have been a boulder that was blasted off the moon by an impacting, crater-forming asteroid,” reports the Associated Press. The 33-foot space rock is expected to pass… Continue reading Earth’s ‘Mini Moon’ May Have Been a Chunk of Our Actual Moon
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Verge: After asking both SpaceX and Blue Origin to develop cargo landers for its Artemis missions, NASA has announced plans to use those landers to deliver heavy equipment to the Moon. The agency wants Elon … Continue reading NASA Wants SpaceX and Blue Origin To Deliver Cargo To the Moon
We have seen a recent surge of interest in whether it’s possible to grow potatoes and other plants in Martian soil, but what is the likelihood that a future (manned) …read more Continue reading LEAF Mission Seeks to Grow Plants on the Moon
NASA confirmed that it’s working with international partners and standards organizations to create a Coordinated Lunar Time (LTC) for future lunar exploration. This time standard will account for relativity and be scalable for other celestial bodies, s… Continue reading NASA Confirms Plans To Develop Lunar Time Standard
China is planning to put people on the Moon around 2030 and is showing off the new space suits they’ll be wearing. At a media event, the China Manned Space Agency (CMSA) had two astronauts put the suits through their paces for the cameras.Continue Read… Continue reading The space suit Chinese astronauts will wear on the Moon
silverjacket writes: A feature for The New Yorker describes a plan to use robots to mine lunar materials and build a radio telescope on the far side of the moon that will help answer questions about the early universe. An excerpt from the story: he dre… Continue reading The Quest To Build a Telescope On the Moon
A small asteroid, 2024 PT5, will temporarily become a mini-moon for Earth, orbiting in a horseshoe shape from September 29 to November 25, 2024. CBS News reports: Researchers at the Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System, an asteroid monitoring … Continue reading Earth Will Get a Second ‘Mini-Moon’ For 2 Months This Year
Few photography subjects offer the breadth of beauty as astronomy, and the Royal Observatory Greenwich’s annual Astronomy Photographer of the Year awards celebrate that fact. The winners for 2024 have now been crowned, including some breathtaking shots… Continue reading Gallery: Cosmic wonders in the Astronomy Photographer of the Year awards
Our solar system might still bear the scars from an extremely close shave with an alien star. Such an encounter – the closest pass we know of – would have shaken up objects on the outskirts and might even mean there’s no Planet Nine after all.Continue … Continue reading Alien star could have side-swiped our solar system closer than Voyager