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The Moon Has a Hidden Resource That Could Sustain Billions of Humans for Generations

Although the Moon does have an atmosphere, it’s very thin and composed mostly of hydrogen, neon and argon.

Inverse

IIA scientists propose new metric which can help quantify image quality of the Sun taken from ground-based telescopes

Scientists from the Indian Institute of Astrophysics have proposed a new metric, which can help quantify image quality of the Sun taken from ground-based telescopes

The Hindu

What time is the SpaceX Ax-2 private astronaut launch for Axiom Space?

SpaceX is launching the second all-private mission to the International Space Station today (May 21) and if you're hoping to follow it online, you need to know when it actually lifts off.

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Science This Week | Bezos’ Blue Origin to develop moon lander, genome helps find origin of humans and more

Check out The Hindu’s science wrap featuring top 7 stories on new discoveries, findings, and studies in the scientific world from this week.

The Hindu

SpaceX's Axiom mission-2 set for launch with 1st Saudi woman

A private mission to the International Space Station (ISS) organized by Axiom Space is all set to launch the 'Ax-2' on Sunday (local time) from Florida with the first-ever Saudi woman in its crew to voyage into space, according to Axiom Space. Read further on Dynamite News:

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First Saudi astronauts to blast off in private mission to ISS

Rayyanah Barnawi, the first female Arab astronaut, is also on the mission.

Al Jazeera

As a Black astronaut sets his sights on the moon, he feels the weight of injustice on Earth

NASA astronaut Victor Glover Jr. will travel farther into space than any Black person before him when he pilots the Artemis II lunar mission in 2024.

Los Angeles Times

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‘We go for all and by all’: Artemis II crew certain of moon mission success

Called ‘humanity’s crew’, the four-person team comprises the first woman and the first person of color on a lunar assignment

The Guardian - US

Meteor lights up Queensland sky, reports of sightings from Mackay to Cairns

It's estimated the meteor was between half a metre to a metre in size and would have been travelling within 100,000 to 150,000 kilometres per hour.

ABC News

SpaceX Prepared Two More Falcon With Starlink Satellites

Elon Musk‘s SpaceX readied two more Falcon 9 rockets on SpaceX launch pads on Friday, following a Starlink deployment.

Zenger

SpaceX rocket 'go' to launch four private astronauts on Ax-2, a mission filled with 1sts, today

Axiom Space is ready to launch its second-ever private mission to the International Space Station.

Space

Axiom’s private mission inches commercial space station dreams closer to reality

ORLANDO, Fla. — Axiom Space made history in 2022 with the first all-private mission to the International Space Station. The company is ready to do it again, but with more focus on its endgame: having its own commercial space station in what could potentially be a crowded playing field in…

Orlando Sentinel

Saturn's Rings Are Only 100 Million Years Old — Which is About How Long They Have Left

Saturn's rings are the planet's most distinguishing feature, but they're a recent addition to the Solar System — and are already disappearing.

Inverse

Watch SpaceX's Ax-2 private astronaut launch for Axiom Space in this free livestream on May 21

SpaceX's next private spaceflight will launch four astronauts to the International Space Station on Sunday (May 21) and you can watch the mission live online in a series of free webcasts.

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Behold! NASA Releases Stunning Images of Jupiter's Fiery Moon Io

NASA sailed its Juno spacecraft to Jupiter's volcanic moon, Io.

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Excitement builds for Ax-2 SpaceX launch that will send 1st Saudi woman to space

The Ax-2 mission is set to lift off on Sunday (May 21) atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, sending the first private mission commanded by a woman, and the first female Saudi astronaut, to space.

ABC News

Jeff Bezos's Blue Origin wins NASA contract to build astronaut lunar lander

A team led by Jeff Bezos's rocket company wins a coveted $5.1 billion NASA contract to build a spacecraft to fly astronauts to the Moon's surface.

Zenger

Pair Of Planets Can Be Seen This Coming Tuesday

Memorial Day weekend marks the unofficial start of summer, and the nights leading up to the holiday weekend will offer stargazers.

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Watch SpaceX blast a new Starship launch pad plate with rocket fire (video)

SpaceX is already testing tech that could strengthen the ground beneath its giant Starship rocket's orbital launch pad, a new video shows.

Orlando Sentinel

Blue Origin wins NASA contract to join SpaceX for moon landings

Billionaires Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk officially have something else in common, as NASA awarded its second moon landing contract for the Artemis program to a large group of aerospace companies led by Blue Origin.

The New Daily

NASA awards high-stakes contract for lunar lander

Blue Origin has won a contract with US space agency NASA to build a spacecraft to send astronauts to and from the moon's surface.

Al Jazeera

NASA announces that Bezos’s Blue Origin will build moon lander

The contract is a milestone for Bezos’s space company after it lost a previous lunar-landing bid to competitor SpaceX.

The Independent UK

NASA picks Bezos' Blue Origin to build lunar landers for moonwalkers

Jeff Bezos' rocket company has won a NASA contract to land astronauts on the moon, two years after losing out to SpaceX

Space

Saudi Arabia's 1st female astronaut hopes kids follow in her footsteps

Rayyanah Barnawi, who will become the first Saudi woman in space when the private Ax-2 mission launches on Sunday (May 21), hopes she's blazing a trail for others to follow.

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Rare 'black moon' new moon of May 2023 rises tonight

Tonight (May 19) is the new moon, and it's a rare "black moon," which occurs approximately once every 33 months.

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