Space

May’s full Blue Moon put on a dazzling display over the weekend, flooding the night sky with moonlight as the red supergiant star Antares glowed nearby. A Blue Moon is the name given to the second full moon in a single calendar month — a rare occurrence that only takes place about once every 2.5 years, because the moon’s 29.5-day cycle doesn’t neatly align with the calendar. It’s also…

For years, astronomers have suspected that our solar system may have lost at least one world at some point in its 4.5-billion-year history. And now, new research suggests the moons of Jupiter and Uranus may indeed hint that our planetary neighborhood once had a third ice giant. Evidence has shown that between 3 billion and 4 billion years ago, the solar system’s largest planets likely orbited…

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China is establishing an integrated program called the Lunar Exploration Program, melding both its robotic Chang’e lunar probe activities with the country’s human spaceflight program. Zhang Jingbo, spokesman for the China Manned Space Agency (CMSA) agency, made the announcement at a May 23 pre-launch event for the Shenzhou-23 crew launch to the nation’s Tiangong Space Station. Speaking at…