7+ hour, 53+ min ago  (250+ words) The team was congratulated heartily by India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who announced on X, "This is a defining moment in India’s space journey. The growing participation of our private sector is opening new frontiers and accelerating innovation. This achievement…...

12+ hour, 34+ min ago  (623+ words) starlust.org Are aliens simply off the grid? A theory offers a surprising solution to the Fermi paradox The Sustainability Solution: A new answer to Fermi's question? For decades, Enrico Fermi’s famous question, “Where is everybody?” has baffled astronomers. Despite…...

12+ hour, 37+ min ago  (134+ words) starlust.org Lesser-known facts about every Apollo Moon landing (1969 - 1972) On this day in 1969, Apollo 11 astronauts walked on the Moon for the first time Skyroot's Vikram-1 successfully completes India's first private orbital rocket launch SpaceX aborts Starship Flight 13 launch after engines…...

8+ hour, 27+ min ago  (597+ words) starlust.org Scientists discover nearby super-Earth is leaking helium into space, revealing its atmosphere For the first time, astronomers have detected an atmosphere on a rocky, Earth-like planet lying in the liquid-water habitable zone of a nearby red dwarf star....

11+ hour, 4+ min ago  (529+ words) starlust.org China plans to surpass NASA’s DART mission by smacking an asteroid at 26 times the speed of sound Following in NASA’s footsteps, Chinese scientists are planning a planetary defense mission that is targeted for launch before 2030. This mission, similar…...

11+ hour, 14+ min ago  (198+ words) starlust.org A near-Earth asteroid has revealed itself as a comet 27 years after its discovery in a NASA study NASA has unearthed the actual identity of a space rock previously thought to be an asteroid nearly three decades after its…...

11+ hour, 38+ min ago  (572+ words) starlust.org Elon Musk's SpaceX targets July 23 to launch Starship on Flight 13 after recent scrub SpaceX is targeting the 13th integrated test launch of its Starship rocket on Thursday, July 23, the company announced on Monday. The liftoff is scheduled to take…...

16+ hour, 49+ min ago  (590+ words) A U.S. spacecraft took the first-ever close-up image of the Moon on July 31, 1964, in black and white. It showed the lunar surface in remarkable detail and gave humanity the first look at our closest neighbor up close. Since then, we have…...

13+ hour, 11+ min ago  (291+ words) Moon Base III involves Intuitive Machines’ Nova-C Trinity lunar lander, which could launch this year if it remains on schedule. Loaded with multiple payloads, the mission objectives involve studying lunar swirls, or light spots on the surface of the Moon,…...

17+ hour, 54+ min ago  (649+ words) Although the Moon lacks the potential to host life, the rocks and dust on its surface hold enough data to help scientists study and understand cosmic history. On Earth, wind, water, and volcanoes constantly reshape the landscape, but as the…...