Space, the final frontier
- Stunning Images From Jupiter Created Out of Latest NASA Juno Spacecraft Flybywww.cnet.com Stunning Images From Jupiter Created Out of Latest NASA Juno Spacecraft Flyby
Our solar system's largest planet got its glamour shots back as contributors interpret raw data from JunoCam.
- China's Shenzhou-18 crew returns to Earth after 192-day space journeynewsaf.cgtn.com China's Shenzhou-18 crew returns to Earth after 192-day space journey
China's Shenzhou-18 astronauts – Ye Guangfu, Li Cong and Li Guangsu – returned to Earth on Monday after the conclusion of their six-month mission at the China Space Station.
- China chooses 2 teams to develop low-cost space station cargo spacecraftspacenews.com China chooses 2 teams to develop low-cost space station cargo spacecraft
HELSINKI — China’s human spaceflight agency has selected two proposals to develop spacecraft for low-cost space station resupply missions, echoing earlier moves by NASA. The China Manned Space Engi…
- China selects 2 proposals for crewed moon roverspacenews.com China selects 2 proposals for crewed moon rover
HELSINKI — China’s human spaceflight agency has selected two teams to develop prototype rovers for the country’s planned crewed moon mission before the end of the decade. The country last year put …
- China launches Shenzhou-19 manned spaceshipwww.bastillepost.com China launches Shenzhou-19 manned spaceship
China on Wednesday launched the Shenzhou-19 manned spaceship, sending a crew of three astronauts int
- Video Provides Rare Look Inside China’s Space Stationhackaday.com Video Provides Rare Look Inside China’s Space Station
China has a space station — it’s called Tiangong, the first module was launched in 2021, and it’s all going quite swimmingly, thank you very much. That’s essentially what we…
- Researchers in Wuhan simulate lunar soil to create what could become the foundations of a space outpostwww.scmp.com Will these be the building blocks of China’s base on the moon?
Researchers in Wuhan simulate lunar soil to create what could become the foundations of a space outpost.
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- America’s Artemis III moon landing plan slips while China’s rival program is moving at speed without significant failures or delaysasiatimes.com China blasting ahead of US in race back to the moon - Asia Times
Will the next human to walk on the moon speak English or Mandarin? In all, 12 Americans landed on the lunar surface between 1969 and 1972. Now, both the
- Highest-energy ever gamma rays observed from Milky Way centerdiscover.lanl.gov Highest-energy ever gamma rays observed from Milky Way center
Observatory research points to extreme cosmic accelerator as source of galactic cosmic rays
- Euclid mission reveals "page 1" of our cosmic storybigthink.com Euclid mission reveals "page 1" of our cosmic story
What are dark matter and dark energy? The large-scale structure of the cosmos encodes them both, with ESA's Euclid mission leading the way.
- Will NASA’s Europa Clipper Really Find Aliens? Here’s What the Spacecraft Can and Can’t Dowww.inverse.com Will NASA’s Europa Clipper Really Find Aliens? Here’s What the Spacecraft Can and Can’t Do
To learn about the potential for life in a hidden ocean on Jupiter's moon Europa, NASA will hunt for plumes and "crop circles."
- China releases the roadmap for the development of space science by 2050!news.china.com.cn 中国发布丨到2050年中国空间科学发展路线图公布！分这三步-中国网
10月15日，中国科学院、国家航天局、中国载人航天工程办公室联合发布《国家空间科学中长期发展规划（2024—2050年）》，明确了我国空间科学发展目标。
The Chinese Academy of Sciences, the National Space Administration, and the China Manned Space Engineering Office jointly issued China's medium to long term space development plan.
Overall goal:
China will plan and demonstrate the implementation of national space science missions in stages, coordinate and strengthen mission-driven basic research, build a high-level talent team for space science, continuously achieve landmark original results with significant international influence, realize high-quality development of space science, rank among the world's top countries, and become a space science power.
The Five Major Scientific Themes:
- Theme 1: "Extreme Universe". It mainly explores the origin and evolution of the universe and reveal the physical laws under extreme cosmic conditions. Priority development directions under this theme include: dark matter and extreme universe, origin and evolution of the universe, and detection of cosmic baryonic matter.
- Theme 2: "Ripples in Spacetime". It mainly aims to detect medium and low frequency gravitational waves and primordial gravitational waves, and reveal the nature of gravity and spacetime. The priority development direction under this theme is space gravitational wave detection.
- Theme 3: "Sun-Earth Panorama". It mainly explores the Earth, the Sun and the heliosphere, and reveals the physical processes and laws of the complex system of the Sun and the Earth, and the overall connection between the Sun and the solar system. Priority development directions under this theme include: Earth circulation system, integrated observation of the Earth and the Moon, space weather detection, stereoscopic detection of the Sun, and detection of the outer heliosphere.
- Theme 4: "Habitable Planets". It mainly explores the habitability of solar system bodies and exoplanets, and conducts the search for extraterrestrial life. Priority development directions under this theme include: sustainable development, solar system archaeology, planetary stratification, search for extraterrestrial life, and exoplanet detection.
- Theme 5: "Studying Things in Space". It is mainly to reveal the laws of material movement and life activities under space conditions and deepen the understanding of basic physics such as quantum mechanics and general relativity. The priority development directions under this theme include: microgravity science, quantum mechanics and general relativity, space life science, etc.
The Three Stages:
- In the first phase, by 2027, the Chinese space station will be put into operation, and manned lunar exploration, the fourth phase of the lunar exploration project and the planetary exploration project will be implemented. Five to eight space science satellite missions will be demonstrated and approved, and a number of original results with important international influence will be produced.
- The second phase, from 2028 to 2035, China will continue to operate the Chinese space station, demonstrate the implementation of scientific missions such as manned lunar exploration and the international lunar research station, demonstrate the implementation of about 15 space science satellite missions, and achieve original results that are among the best in the world.
- The third stage, from 2036 to 2050, China will demonstrate the implementation of more than 30 space science missions, and achieve world-leading levels in important areas.
- What if 'cotton candy' planets are actually Ring Pops?www.popsci.com What if 'cotton candy' planets are actually Ring Pops?
Some super-puff exoplanets might be Saturn-like ringed worlds, according to new research.
- Biggest solar flare since 2017 erupts from sun and Earth is in the firing line (video)www.space.com Biggest solar flare since 2017 erupts from sun and Earth is in the firing line (video)
On Oct. 3, the sun released the most powerful solar flare this solar cycle, a colossal X9.05 eruption.
- ESO telescope captures the most detailed infrared map ever of our Milky Waywww.eso.org ESO telescope captures the most detailed infrared map ever of our Milky Way
Astronomers have published a gigantic infrared map of the Milky Way containing more than 1.5 billion objects ― the most detailed one ever made. Using the European Southern Observatory’s VISTA telescope, the team monitored the central regions of our Galaxy over more than 13 years. At 500 terabytes of...
- An International Space Station Leak Is Getting Worse—and Keeping NASA Up at Nightwww.wired.com An International Space Station Leak Is Getting Worse—and Keeping NASA Up at Night
A NASA inspector general report gives new details on a leak that has plagued the ISS for five years, and reveals that the agency considers it the highest-level risk.
- Satellites Discovered Something Bizarre in the 1960s — We Finally Know What It Iswww.inverse.com Satellites Discovered Something Bizarre in the 1960s — We Finally Know What It Is
Researcher’s from NASA recently launched a rocket high into the sky over the Arctic to measure the electrical charge of Earth’s atmosphere.
- Galactic Energy launches six satellites with third sea launchspacenews.com Galactic Energy launches six satellites with third sea launch
Galactic Energy launches six satellites with third sea launch China’s Galactic Energy conducted its third Ceres-1 solid rocket sea launch Thursday, successfully sending six satellites into orbit.
- New strategy for producing water on the Moonomniletters.com New strategy for producing water on the Moon
Chinese researchers have created a method to produce water on the Moon on a large scale, using the reaction of lunar regolith with endogenous hydrogen.
- India delays planned space station and moon base by 5 yearswww.theregister.com India delays planned space station and moon base by 5 years
As results from 2023's Chandrayaan-3 mission suggest south pole Moon magma
- The Webb Telescope Further Deepens the Biggest Controversy in Cosmologywww.quantamagazine.org The Webb Telescope Further Deepens the Biggest Controversy in Cosmology | Quanta Magazine
A long-awaited study of the cosmic expansion rate suggests that when it comes to the Hubble tension, cosmologists are still missing something.
- You've never seen a prettier radiation-spewing supermassive black holewww.popsci.com You've never seen a prettier radiation-spewing supermassive black hole
A spiral galaxy with an ‘active galactic nucleus’ shows off in a new JWST image.
- Venus may be able to support life, new atmospheric evidence suggestswww.space.com Venus may be able to support life, new atmospheric evidence suggests
"Whether it's in penguin poop or badger guts, we don't know why bacteria make phosphine, but they do."
- Chinese scientists discover naturally occurring "few-layer graphene" while analyzing the sample Chang'e-5 collected from the Moon's surface in December 2020.ca.news.yahoo.com China Finds Something Strange in Sample Retrieved From Moon
Lunar Graphene Chinese scientists have made an unusual discovery while analyzing the sample Chang'e-5 collected from the Moon's surface in December 2020. They found naturally occurring "few-layer graphene" for the first time, as state-run news agency Global Times reports, which could have major impl...
- A cave discovered on the Moon opens up new opportunities for settlement by humanstheconversation.com A cave discovered on the Moon opens up new opportunities for settlement by humans
The caves would protect astronauts from meteorite strikes and cosmic radiation.
- China's 30-satellite information superhighway to connect Earth, mooninterestingengineering.com China's 30-satellite information superhighway to connect Earth, moon
Chinese scientists propose a 30-satellite network to establish an "information superhighway" between Earth and the moon.
- Scientists discover that a type of moss can grow on Marswww.bbc.co.uk Scientists discover that a type of moss can grow on Mars
Scientists in China say they have discovered that a type of moss would survive on Mars. Syntrichia caninervis is type of moss usually found in regions such an Antartica or the Mojave desert. But now, scientists has been found that it can survive Mars-like-conditions including drought, high levels ...
- China Planning to Smash Asteroid in Planetary Defense Testfuturism.com China Planning to Smash Asteroid in Planetary Defense Test
China is planning to send an satellite into orbit that will then study and smash to bits a nearby asteroid in a test mission to defend Earth.
- The Head of NASA Is Being Awfully Catty About China's Amazing New Moon Samplesfuturism.com The Head of NASA Is Being Awfully Catty About China's Amazing New Moon Samples
In a spiteful retort earlier this week, NASA administrator Bill Nelson said the agency was willing to work with China to examine Moon rocks.
- There's an Extremely Stupid Reason NASA Scientists Can't Study China's Amazing New Moon Rocksfuturism.com There's an Extremely Stupid Reason NASA Scientists Can't Study China's Amazing New Moon Rocks
The US enacted a law in 2011 that forbids NASA from cooperating with China, which means it may not be able to study the latest Moon rocks.
