Day: February 29, 2024

A Russian rocket on Thursday successfully put an Iranian satellite into orbit, a launch that underlined increasingly close cooperation between Moscow and Tehran. Russia’s state-run Roscosmos corporation said that a Soyuz rocket blasted off from the Vostochny launch facility in the country’s far east to carry the Iranian satellite and 18 Russian satellites into orbit. …

Russian Rocket Successfully Puts Iranian Satellite Into Orbit. Read More »

Astronomers have discovered that a planet-birthing disk of gas and dust that surrounds an infant star is drenched with enough water to fill Earth’s oceans three times over. Water, a key element needed to form and sustain life as we know it, has always been considered to play an important role in forming planets. This …

A Baby Star’s Planet-Forming Disk Has 3 Times More Water Than All Of Earth’s Oceans. Read More »

Intuitive Machines’ Odysseus moon lander overcame a number of hurdles during its epic touchdown last week, including one or more broken legs. The 14-foot-tall (4.3 meters) Odysseus settled onto the gray dirt near the moon‘s south pole on Thursday (Feb. 22), pulling off the first American lunar landing since the Apollo 17 mission in 1972. …

Private Odysseus Moon Lander Broke A Leg During Historic Touchdown. Read More »