China has become the first country after the United States to successfully land a rover on Mars. On May 14, 2021, China’s Zhurong rover rolled from its platform onto the red sand, with this historical […]
On April 24th, China has revealed the name and logo of its first independent interplanetary mission. This was done in honor of the 50th anniversary of the launch of the country’s first satellite; the DFH-1 […]
NASA’s Curiosity rover has confirmed the existence of clay on Mars, suggesting that there was once water on the Red Planet. In August 2012, Curiosity landed on the surface of Mars with one of its […]
The image above shows the culmination of the Chinese space agency’s Chang’e 4 mission to the dark side of the Moon. In the photo, the mission’s Jade Rabbit 2 lunar rover can be seen rolling […]
The artist’s impression above shows the approximate current positions of both Voyager spacecraft relative to the Sun and other surviving spacecraft. Note that while Voyager 1 left the solar system in 2012 above the orbital […]
The image above shows what may turn out to be a proposed semi-permanent base on Mars, but the notion that Mars could be colonized by humans is not new, and a plethora of plans on […]
Space is a perilous place for humans to inhabit: microgravity slackens our muscles and upsets our fluid balance, radiation threatens to ravage DNA, and the yawning vacuum outside is a constant threat. However, for other […]
The image above shows an artists’ impression of the deployed InSight spacecraft on the surface of Mars. The craft was launched from the west coast of the USA on May 5. 2018, after a two-year […]
The image above shows a fresh crater on Mars surrounded by a blanket of ejected material; as impacts on Mars go, this particular example is very young, having occurred sometime between January 2014 and August […]
Landing men on the Moon and bringing them all back safely to Earth was no small feat for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). In fact, at the height of the Apollo Program, nearly […]
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