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Recent photos taken by India’s Space Research Organization moon orbiter, known as Chandrayaan 2, clearly show the Apollo 11 and Apollo 12 landing sites more than 50 years later. The photos were taken by the Chandrayaan 2 orbiter in April 2021 and were reshared on Curiosity’s X page – which posts about space exploration – on Wednesday. "Image of Apollo 11 and 12 taken by India's Moon orbiter. Disapproving Moon landing deniers," Curiosity wrote on X, along with the overhead photos that show the landing vehicles on the surface of the moon. Apollo 11 landed on the moon on July 20, 1969, making Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin the first men to walk on its surface. US PREPARES TO DEORBIT INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION AMID CHINA COMPETITION  Recent photos taken by India’s Space Research Organiza...

A study published last week proposed that dark matter may be responsible for an observable wobble in Mars’ orbit.The study, published in the peer-reviewed scientific journal Physical Review, postulates the theory that dark matter compromises microscopic, or primordial, black holes.Unlike astrophysical black holes, these primordial black holes formed when dense pockets of gas collapsed in the seconds after the Big Bang and scattered throughout the universe because of expansion. Despite being as small as an atom, these primordial black holes would be heavier than thousands of solar masses and constitute dark matter. AMAZING TIME-LAPSE VIDEO OF PARTIAL LUNAR ECLIPSE CAPTURED IN ALABAMA A panoramic view of Mars (NASA)First theorized in the 1930s by Swiss astronomer Fritz Zwicky, dark matt...

After a brief pause in communications with Voyager 1, NASA re-established a connection with the interstellar spacecraft located more than 15 billion miles away from Earth, using a frequency not used more than forty years.Communication between NASA and Voyager 1 has been spotty at times. In fact, the spacecraft stopped sending readable data to NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California on Nov. 14, 2023, and it was not until April that mission controllers began receiving commands once again.More recently, the spacecraft turned off one of its two transmitters after what engineers suspected was due to Voyager 1’s fault protection system, which autonomously responds to onboard issues.For instance, if the spacecraft uses too much power from its supply source, fault protection wi...

The mystery behind a "strange noise" that a NASA astronaut heard coming from the Boeing Starliner spacecraft while aboard the International Space Station has been solved, the space agency said Monday.Astronaut Butch Wilmore first reported the pulsating sound coming from a speaker inside the spacecraft to Mission Control at Johnson Space Center in Houston on Saturday, just days before it was set to leave the station and return to Earth on autopilot.NASA said in a statement on social media that the pulsing sound from the speaker has since stopped and determined the feedback was the result of an audio configuration between the space station and Starliner."The space station audio system is complex, allowing multiple spacecraft and modules to be interconnected, and it is common to experienc...

NASA announced it is canceling its Viper moon rover project due to high cost and launch delays.The Viper rover was meant to explore the moon's south pole in search of water.Astrobotic Technology still plans to fly its Griffin moon lander by the end of next year, but it will no longer carry a moon rover with it as initially intended.NASA said Wednesday it's canceling its water-seeking moon rover, citing cost overruns and launch delays.The Viper rover was supposed to launch in late 2023 aboard a lander provided by Astrobotic Technology, but extra testing and increased costs kept delaying the mission, threatening other projects, the space agency said.The rover had aimed to explore the moon's south pole. About $450 million had been spent so far on its development, NASA said.SCIENTISTS DISC...

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