22 September 2017
OSIRIS-REx makes closest Earth approach today
... towards asteroid Bennu. OSIRIS-REx, which stands for Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, and Security – Regolith Explorer will pass the Earth around 17,000 kilometres above us in order to perform a manoeuvre known as an Earth...
28 January 2019
Oldest Earth rocks found on the Moon
... end up on our lunar neighbour eons ago? After developing techniques for locating impactor fragments in the lunar regolith, the international team, who also includes research Scientist Jeremy Bellucci, concluded that the rock was...
11 March 2019
LAMP shows migrating water molecules on the Moon
.... The sparse layer of water molecules is more common at higher latitudes and temporarily sticks to the layer of loose regolith that coats the lunar surface, but once the temperature begins to hot up around local noon time...
12 April 2019
Beresheet spacecraft crash lands on the Moon
... metres to go, Mission control lost communications with Beresheet and its attempt at a soft landing on the dusty grey regolith were thwarted. "We had a failure in the spacecraft; we unfortunately have not managed to land successfully," Opher Doron...
09 December 2019
Metal-loving microbe prefers eating meteorites than earth rocks
... tolerant of heavy metals, M. sedula has already been experimented on in the lab, where scientists have grown it on Martian regolith simulants - material that looks and feels like ground-down rocks on Mars, but isn’t actually the...
24 February 2020
First results from InSight reveal a seismically active Mars
... a picture of what the uppermost layers of the Martian crust are alike. According to their paper, Mars is encased by a regolith layer just a few metres in depth, under which a much deeper crustal layer extends down to 8 and 11 kilometres...
