Lunar Meteorite Preserves Evidence of Colossal Asteroid Strike

Planetary scientists analyzing a lunar meteorite known as Northwest Africa (NWA) 12593 have uncovered evidence of an asteroid impact that occurred 3.5 billion years ago on the Moon, helping to reconstruct a period of intense bombardment that left lasting marks across the inner Solar System. The post Lunar Meteorite PreservesContinue Reading

This Week In Space podcast: Episode 214 — Moon Man

Moon Man – With Former NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine – YouTube Watch On On Episode 214 of This Week In Space, Rod Pyle and Tariq Malik talk with former NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine about his past and the space agency’s future. There are NASA Administrators, and then there are NASA Administrators—all are very accomplished individualsContinue Reading

Closer every day: A spectacular 30-day collage of the Venus-Jupiter conjunction (photo)

Astrophotographer Soumyadeep Mukherjee has shared a spectacular 30-day collage of the western night sky titled “Closer, Everyday”, which captures the subtle motion of Jupiter and Venus as they danced through the skies above Kolkata, India, ahead of a dramatic planetary conjunction. The photos used to create the collage were taken with a Nikon Z6II cameraContinue Reading