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Chinese rover on Mars Floods on Mars? Chinese rover finds a hint

While the results are the fruit of an initial analysis only, more empirical evidence will confirm if floods once ran deep under the Martian surface

Korean moon mission First South Korean lunar mission, Danuri, to be launched this week

Danuri is expected to reach its destination by mid-December and shall orbit for a year afterwards. It will study the Moon’s ancient magnetism and dust spread across its surface

James Webb Telescope James Webb telescope encounters a micrometeoroid, without major damage

After initial assessments, the team has found that the telescope is still performing at a level that exceeds all mission requirements despite a marginally detectable effect in the data

NASA Voyager Voyager images keep scientists confused

Voyager currently is at a distance of 14.5 billion miles (23.3 billion kilometers) away from Earth and seems to operate properly except that the spacecraft is now unable to locate its position in space

James Webb Telescope heads out to explore the origin of the universe

The mission is a joint effort by NASA, the ESA (European Space Agency) and the Canadian Space Agency, with an aim of finding the light emanating from the early universe’s first galaxies by exploring the solar system and the exoplanets

The Arctic is warming much faster than thought earlier

The new finding comes at a time when we have already witnessed permafrost declining which has impacted Indigenous villages, caused vanishing of summer sea ice, and resulted in water washing down Greenland’s ice sheets at a record amount

NASA spacecraft touches outer atmosphere of Sun for first time

The Parker Solar Probe, launched in 2018, has been orbiting the Sun. The craft has a carbon composite shield which protects the instruments inside it from the scorching heat of around 1370 degree Celsius

Moon mission Moon rocks brought to Earth by Chinese mission shed new light on solar system’s history

Scientists have reported their findings of the rock samples collected from the moon surface, which have filled the knowledge gaps about some of its essential aspects

Bezos and Musk: New Space Age or billionaire space grab?

We are entering a new space age in which billionaires can leave this world, which they are destroying, hoping to find another world to conquer and destroy

Billionaire space race: Joyride for the ultra rich

Richard Branson, Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk are engaged in a new space race which has been widely hailed by the media. But is this really about exploration or the mere whims of a few rich men?

NASA New Horizon What NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft reveals about most distant object ever it has visited

The distant object is known as Arrokoth, and is a peanut-shaped, ultra-red object. Arrokoth sits in the trans Pluto region, some 1 billion miles from the Pluto in the Kuiper belt

Quantum Computers Quantum computers bring uncertainty knocking at our door

Google’s Sycamore has shown that a quantum computer can do a functional computation and that quantum computing does solve a special class of problems much faster than conventional computers