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White House directs NASA to create time standard for the moon The White House on Tuesday directed NASA to establish a unified standard of time for the moon and other celestial bodies, as the United States aims to set international norms in space amid a growing lunar race among nations and private companies. The head of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP), according to a memo seen by Reuters, instructed the space agency to work with other parts of the U.S. government to devise a plan by the end of 2026 for setting what it called a Coordinated Lunar Time (LTC). The differing gravitational force, and potentially other factors, on the moon and on other celestial bodies change how time unfolds relative to how it is perceived on Earth. Among other things, the LTC would provide a time-keeping for lunar spacecraft and satellites that require extreme precision for their missions. ©SHIRSENDU KARMAKAR #NASA #Time_Standard_For_Moon

White House directs NASA to create time standard for the moon The White House on Tuesday directed NASA to establish a unified standard of time for the moon and other celestial bodies, as the United States aims to set international norms in space amid a growing lunar race among nations and private companies. The head of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP), according to a memo seen by Reuters, instructed the space agency to work with other parts of the U.S. government to devise a plan by the end of 2026 for setting what it called a Coordinated Lunar Time (LTC). The differing gravitational force, and potentially other factors, on the moon and on other celestial bodies change how time unfolds relative to how it is perceived on Earth. Among other things, the LTC would provide a time-keeping for lunar spacecraft and satellites that require extreme precision for their missions. ©SHIRSENDU KARMAKAR #NASA #Time_Standard_For_Moon

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NASA Spacecraft 'Pings' India's Chandrayaan-3 Lander On Moon Laser instrument onboard a NASA spacecraft orbiting the Moon has successfully pinged the Vikram lander of India's Chandrayaan-3 mission, the US space agency said. The laser beam was transmitted and reflected between the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) and an Oreo-sized device on Vikram lander, opening the door to a new style of precisely locating targets on the Moon's surface, NASA said. The lander was 100 kilometers away from LRO, near Manzinus crater in the Moon's south pole region, when LRO transmitted laser pulses toward it on December 12 last year ©SHIRSENDU KARMAKAR #NASA

NASA Spacecraft 'Pings' India's Chandrayaan-3 Lander On Moon Laser instrument onboard a NASA spacecraft orbiting the Moon has successfully pinged the Vikram lander of India's Chandrayaan-3 mission, the US space agency said. The laser beam was transmitted and reflected between the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) and an Oreo-sized device on Vikram lander, opening the door to a new style of precisely locating targets on the Moon's surface, NASA said. The lander was 100 kilometers away from LRO, near Manzinus crater in the Moon's south pole region, when LRO transmitted laser pulses toward it on December 12 last year ©SHIRSENDU KARMAKAR #NASA

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NASA is launching the world's first wooden spacecraft next year Scientists are taking a step toward making space travel more environmentally friendly. By summer 2024, NASA in collaboration with the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) is planning to launch the world's first wooden satellite into Earth's orbit, according to a report from Live Science. Dubbed LignoSat, the miniature, biodegradable spacecraft made out of magnolia wood will incinerate upon reentry into Earth's atmosphere, thereby reducing space debris. There are currently more than 9,300 tons of space junk—including defunct satellites and spent rocket stages—orbiting our planet, according to the European Space Agency. Made of shiny metals, the space objects have been found to be a big contributor to light pollution, increasing the brightness of the night sky by at least 10 percent over natural light levels, Live Science reports. Metal spacecraft are also more expensive to manufacture and can pose a threat to the International Space Station (ISS), other spacecraft carrying humans, and even people on Earth. ©SHIRSENDU KARMAKAR #NASA

NASA is launching the world's first wooden spacecraft next year Scientists are taking a step toward making space travel more environmentally friendly. By summer 2024, NASA in collaboration with the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) is planning to launch the world's first wooden satellite into Earth's orbit, according to a report from Live Science. Dubbed LignoSat, the miniature, biodegradable spacecraft made out of magnolia wood will incinerate upon reentry into Earth's atmosphere, thereby reducing space debris. There are currently more than 9,300 tons of space junk—including defunct satellites and spent rocket stages—orbiting our planet, according to the European Space Agency. Made of shiny metals, the space objects have been found to be a big contributor to light pollution, increasing the brightness of the night sky by at least 10 percent over natural light levels, Live Science reports. Metal spacecraft are also more expensive to manufacture and can pose a threat to the International Space Station (ISS), other spacecraft carrying humans, and even people on Earth. ©SHIRSENDU KARMAKAR #NASA

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NASA is pausing all Mars missions, effective immediately. Here's why. The Red Planet has reached solar conjunction as its orbit takes it to the far side of the sun and out of sight. NASA's Mars robots are on their own until Nov. 25. NASA's Curiosity rover took this selfie while inside Mars' Gale crater on June 15, 2018, which was the 2,082nd Martian day, or sol, of the rover's mission. Mars disappeared from the sky over Earth on Saturday (Nov. 18) when the Red Planet was apparently swallowed by the sun. Don't panic, this disappearance may look dramatic but it is actually the result of Mars passing to the opposite side of the sun to Earth during an event that astronomers call solar conjunction. ©SHIRSENDU KARMAKAR #NASA

NASA is pausing all Mars missions, effective immediately. Here's why. The Red Planet has reached solar conjunction as its orbit takes it to the far side of the sun and out of sight. NASA's Mars robots are on their own until Nov. 25. NASA's Curiosity rover took this selfie while inside Mars' Gale crater on June 15, 2018, which was the 2,082nd Martian day, or sol, of the rover's mission. Mars disappeared from the sky over Earth on Saturday (Nov. 18) when the Red Planet was apparently swallowed by the sun. Don't panic, this disappearance may look dramatic but it is actually the result of Mars passing to the opposite side of the sun to Earth during an event that astronomers call solar conjunction. ©SHIRSENDU KARMAKAR #NASA

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NASA astronaut Frank Rubio returning to Earth after record 371 days in space A Russian Soyuz spacecraft undocked from the International Space Station early Wednesday, bringing an end to American astronaut Frank Rubio's U.S. record-setting 371-day mission in space. The Soyuz MS-23 detached from the station's Prichal docking module at 3:54 a.m. EDT Wednesday as the orbital was soaring 260 miles over southeastern Mongolia with Rubio and Roscosmos cosmonauts Sergey Prokopyev and Dmitri Petelin on board. The Soyuz spacecraft is now heading back to Earth, where it is scheduled to land about 90 miles southeast of Dzhezkazgan, Kazakhstan, at 7:17 a.m. EDT, or 5:17 p.m. local time. With Rubio's exit, he sets a new U.S. record for most continuous days in space at 371 days, breaking the previous record of 355 days set by astronaut Mark Vande Hei in March 2022. ©SHIRSENDU KARMAKAR #NASA

NASA astronaut Frank Rubio returning to Earth after record 371 days in space A Russian Soyuz spacecraft undocked from the International Space Station early Wednesday, bringing an end to American astronaut Frank Rubio's U.S. record-setting 371-day mission in space. The Soyuz MS-23 detached from the station's Prichal docking module at 3:54 a.m. EDT Wednesday as the orbital was soaring 260 miles over southeastern Mongolia with Rubio and Roscosmos cosmonauts Sergey Prokopyev and Dmitri Petelin on board. The Soyuz spacecraft is now heading back to Earth, where it is scheduled to land about 90 miles southeast of Dzhezkazgan, Kazakhstan, at 7:17 a.m. EDT, or 5:17 p.m. local time. With Rubio's exit, he sets a new U.S. record for most continuous days in space at 371 days, breaking the previous record of 355 days set by astronaut Mark Vande Hei in March 2022. ©SHIRSENDU KARMAKAR #NASA

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NASA Discovers Building Blocks Of Life On Jupiter’s Moon Handful Of Years Away From Earth This is not investment advice. The author has no position in any of the stocks mentioned. Wccftech.com has a disclosure and ethics policy. After failing to find any extraterrestrial links to Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP), or commonly called UFOs, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has found one of the building blocks of life, carbon, on Jupiter's icy moon Europa. ©SHIRSENDU KARMAKAR #NASA

NASA Discovers Building Blocks Of Life On Jupiter’s Moon Handful Of Years Away From Earth This is not investment advice. The author has no position in any of the stocks mentioned. Wccftech.com has a disclosure and ethics policy. After failing to find any extraterrestrial links to Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP), or commonly called UFOs, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has found one of the building blocks of life, carbon, on Jupiter's icy moon Europa. ©SHIRSENDU KARMAKAR #NASA

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NASA rover finds place where extraordinary events occurred on Mars The dust-covered Mars Curiosity rover has arrived at a location of fantastic intrigue. NASA's six-wheeled robot rumbled to Gediz Vallis Ridge on Mount Sharp, a mountain the rover has slowly climbed since 2014. The ridge is evidence from some 3 billion years ago, when Mars was a wet world, replete with lakes and roaring rivers. Back then, colossal debris flows hurled mud and car-sized boulders down the mountain; eons of the whistling Martian wind then chiseled away at this material, leaving the ridge you can see below. "I can’t imagine what it would have been like to witness these events," geologist William Dietrich, a member of the Curiosity mission team, said in a statement. "Huge rocks were ripped out of the mountain high above, rushed downhill, and spread out into a fan below." Getting to the ridge wasn't easy. It took years to find a route there. And the journey required "one of the most difficult climbs the mission has ever faced," NASA explained. It was like running up a sand dune covered in boulders, a Curiosity engineer said. ©SHIRSENDU KARMAKAR #NASA

NASA rover finds place where extraordinary events occurred on Mars The dust-covered Mars Curiosity rover has arrived at a location of fantastic intrigue. NASA's six-wheeled robot rumbled to Gediz Vallis Ridge on Mount Sharp, a mountain the rover has slowly climbed since 2014. The ridge is evidence from some 3 billion years ago, when Mars was a wet world, replete with lakes and roaring rivers. Back then, colossal debris flows hurled mud and car-sized boulders down the mountain; eons of the whistling Martian wind then chiseled away at this material, leaving the ridge you can see below. "I can’t imagine what it would have been like to witness these events," geologist William Dietrich, a member of the Curiosity mission team, said in a statement. "Huge rocks were ripped out of the mountain high above, rushed downhill, and spread out into a fan below." Getting to the ridge wasn't easy. It took years to find a route there. And the journey required "one of the most difficult climbs the mission has ever faced," NASA explained. It was like running up a sand dune covered in boulders, a Curiosity engineer said. ©SHIRSENDU KARMAKAR #NASA

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NASA plans Armageddon-style deflection after experts name date asteroid could hit Earth Scientists believe an asteroid the size of the Empire State Building could hit Earth in 159 years' time - and NASA experts are finalising plans for an Armageddon-style deflection should it be required Experts have said the Bennu asteroid has a remote chance of hitting Earth in 2182 NASA scientists have revealed they are in the “final stretch” of their mission to avert an asteroid striking the Earth. Experts believe that September 24, 2182 marks the day an asteroid named Bennu could hit the planet with the force of 22 atom bombs. The space rock - which is the same size as the Empire State building - swings close to our planet every six years. ©SHIRSENDU KARMAKAR #NASA

NASA plans Armageddon-style deflection after experts name date asteroid could hit Earth Scientists believe an asteroid the size of the Empire State Building could hit Earth in 159 years' time - and NASA experts are finalising plans for an Armageddon-style deflection should it be required Experts have said the Bennu asteroid has a remote chance of hitting Earth in 2182 NASA scientists have revealed they are in the “final stretch” of their mission to avert an asteroid striking the Earth. Experts believe that September 24, 2182 marks the day an asteroid named Bennu could hit the planet with the force of 22 atom bombs. The space rock - which is the same size as the Empire State building - swings close to our planet every six years. ©SHIRSENDU KARMAKAR #NASA