This July, skywatchers across Southern California are in for a remarkable sight as the crescent Moon and Mars converge in a rare astronomical pairing. According to National Geographic’s July 2025 night sky guide, this event is part of a particularly rich calendar of cosmic activity that includes meteor showers, supermoons, and other visible planetary movements. Among these, the Moon–Mars conjunction …
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IN A NUTSHELL 🚀 NASA’s Artemis mission will deploy advanced tools to explore the moon’s south polar region. 🔍 The Lunar Terrain Vehicle (LTV) will carry two instruments to detect minerals and map the lunar surface. 🛰️ The Ultra-Compact Imaging Spectrometer will orbit the moon to assess surface water and human impact. 🌑 These efforts aim to uncover lunar secrets …
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Saturn, the moon and Neptune will be within 5 degrees of each other in the night sky on July 15. (Image credit: Chris Vaughn) Heads up stargazers! The moon will rise close to Saturn and the ice giant Neptune in the eastern sky on the night of July 15, close enough to be seen together in a pair of binoculars! …
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The moon and Saturn, as seen from Kuwait City on October 14, 2024. (Photo by YASSER AL-ZAYYAT/AFP … More via Getty Images) AFP via Getty Images Look to the east shortly before midnight on Tuesday, July 15, and you’ll see two of the most beautiful objects in the solar system shine together. A waning gibbous moon, by now rising late …
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buradaki via Shutterstock. Space, the final frontier… The skies have fascinated and shaped civilizations ever since we first set foot on this planet we call home. And even though science keeps advancing at lightning speed, everything that happens above our heads never ceases to amaze us. This month, a series of celestial events will make July feel more magical than …
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The annual Perseid meteor display is one of the best-known and commonly observed meteor showers in the Northern Hemisphere. But this year, if you want to enjoy the show, it’s best to get in early. The Perseids will be active from Thursday, July 17, through Saturday, Aug. 23 and will peak this year on Aug. 12 and 13. But the …
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GOLDEN, Colorado — There are those who envision big bucks pouring in from the heavens by cashing in on resource-rich asteroids. In increasing number, probes are being dispatched by multiple countries that can plumb the depths of deliverables from space rocks. Metallic asteroids are made up mostly of iron and nickel, and also contain platinum group metals, or PGMs for …
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The July full moon put on a magnificent show on July 10, rising low over the southern horizon to the delight of stargazers and astrophotographers worldwide. Read on for a roundup of the best photos of the lunar show. July’s full moon is known as the ‘Buck Moon’, in reference to the male deer — called bucks in the U.S. …
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On May 28, China launched Tianwen-2, a robotic mission that aims to land on a tumbling near-Earth asteroid barely the size of a conference room, extract samples and send them back to Earth. To continue reading this article: Register now and get3 free articles every month. You’ll also receive our weekly SpaceNews This Week newsletter every Friday. Opt-out at any …
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We don’t really know if there is other life in the universe, but due to one failed Moon landing in 2019, we know there is terrestrial life on the Moon… kind of. One small cockup by “man”, one giant spill for tardigrade kind In February 2019, SpaceIL, a private Israeli non-profit that worked in partnership with the Israel Aerospace Industries …
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