Engineers didn't immediately acknowledge the issue during that broadcast, apart from one controller uttering "Whoa," followed by an audible gasp. The company later confirmed a problem occurred late in ...

Chinese researchers say they've devised a new way to extract water from lunar soil and convert it into fuel.

South Korea's space ambitions keep growing. The nation wants to build a moon base by 2025, The Korea Times reported on Thursday (July 17), citing a long-term exploration road map that the Korea ...

A decentralized autonomous organization (DAO) called MoonDAO sent someone to space on Thursday, one of the biggest successes yet for such a crypto-crowdfunded project.. The DAO didn’t send just ...

According to Gray, the space junk turned out to be a discarded rocket booster from a Chinese mission that sent a spacecraft toward the moon in 2014. The hardware, no longer useful after a ...

So I am persuaded that the object about to hit the moon on 2022 Mar 4 at 12:25 UTC is actually the Chang'e 5-T1 rocket stage." Related Stories After 7 years, a spent Falcon 9 rocket stage is on ...

NASA has confirmed the Moon is a bit messier and a mystery has deepened after its Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) spacecraft discovered the double impact crater of a rocket booster that ...

A rocket part expected to collide with the moon on March 4 was wrongly identified as a SpaceX Falcon rocket stage. More likely, the object was from a Chinese lunar mission, according to NASA.

At precisely 7:25:58 a.m. EST/12:25:58 Universal Time today a rocket part launched by China eight years ago should have struck the Moon while traveling at a speed of around 5,700 mph.

An image of the rocket stage headed for a moon impact on March 4 as seen on Feb. 6, 2022, when it was thought to be a SpaceX Falcon 9 upper stage. Astronomers tracking it now say it is likely a ...

A mini-moon is on track to enter Earth’s orbit and come as close as 27,000 miles away.. However, rather than some asteroid that will orbit around the Earth, it may actually just be some old ...

T-minus ten, nine, eight, seven, six, five, four, three – We have ignition. And liftoff of the first United Launch Alliance Vulcan rocket launching a new era in spaceflight to the moon and beyond.