A lesser-known deity
moon
The tiny glass spherules, collected in lunar soil samples and brought to Earth by China's Chang'e-5 mission in December 2020
The asteroid three times the size of the one that blew out windows in Chelyabinsk, Russia in 2013 will zip by Earth at half the distance of the moon on Saturday (March 25)
"Imagine taking a pile of metal five times larger than the Big Island of Hawaii and burying it underground"
The launch in November went off (mostly) without a hitch, as did the 25-day mission undertaken by an uncrewed Orion capsule
The distance is just slightly farther than the distance between Perth and Sydney
New results from the James Webb Space Telescope challenge prevailing models of the early universe.
His Apollo 7 mission paved the way for the moon landing by Apollo 11 less than a year later
If successful, the craft will take humans around the moon for its next mission, slated for 2024
Orion performed its closest approach to the Moon, coming to within 80 miles (130 kilometers) of the lunar surface