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China's hype video for its lunar base showed what looked like a NASA Space Shuttle lifting off, which it then realized and tried to fix
The CGI clip in the China National Space Administration was later blurred out in a state media vers…
Matthew Loh
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Here's the crazy plan to start building an inflatable habitat on the Moon in 2024
As early as 2024, provided enough funding is gathered over the next nine years, ESA will then send …
Jessica Orwig
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After measuring radiation on the moon for the first time, scientists say a lunar base should be built underground to protect astronauts
Astronauts didn't measure how much radiation they were exposed on the moon. New data show the doses…
Aylin Woodward
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NASA just picked commercial aerospace company Astrobotic to land the first US moon rover in 48 years — a robot that will hunt for ice
NASA's new lunar rover will hunt for water ice on the moon's unexplored south pole. A nearly $200 m…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen,Dave Mo…
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Russia just announced that it is sending humans to the moon
"We have an ambition to have European astronauts on the Moon," Bérengère Houdou, who is the head of…
Jessica Orwig
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NASA just unveiled its step-by-step plan to land astronauts on the moon via the Artemis program — then build a lunar base
NASA has announced its plan to return people to the moon for the first time in over 50 years. But C…
Susie Neilson,Dave Mosher
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China could start building a moon base with lunar-soil bricks in 5 years, amid NASA fears of a moon territory dispute
China aims to build a moon habitat for its taikonauts within five years, according to local media, …
Marianne Guenot,Morgan McFall…
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NASA is sending a new moon rover to sample water ice on the lunar south pole
"It's incredibly exciting to have a rover going to the new and unique environment of the South Pole…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen,Lauren …
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India's adorable, dog-sized moon rover did its first science on the moon by shooting powerful laser beams at the surface
The 57-pound moon rover, called Pragyaan — meaning wisdom — has conducted the first-eve…
Sonam Sheth,Morgan McFall-Joh…
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NASA is back on the moon with the first commercial lunar landing ever
Intuitive Machines' Odysseus lander is the first US spacecraft to land on the moon in more than 50 …
Ellyn Lapointe,Morgan McFall-…
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China just landed its Chang'e-5 spacecraft on the moon. The mission could bring moon rocks to Earth for the first time in 40-plus years.
The samples will come from a previously unexplored volcanic plain. China aims to send them back to …
Morgan McFall-Johnsen,Susie N…
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NASA will pay private companies up to $2.6 billion to get the US back to the moon for the first time in nearly 50 years
One of the nine companies NASA named, Astrobotic, formed in 2007 during the Google Lunar X Prize. T…
Dave Mosher
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NASA is about to farm out the launch of its first moon rover in 48 years to a commercial rocket company
NASA plans to partner with commercial providers to build a permanent moon base and, eventually, spr…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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India's moon lander is the first to study the lunar south pole region up close. Here are 5 scientific discoveries it has already made.
India's Vikram lander and Pragyan rover have already discovered evidence of moonquakes and the pres…
Grace Eliza Goodwin
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NASA is pushing its human moon landing back to 2025, and its top official worries China will beat the US there
Now that Blue Origin's lawsuit against NASA is over, the agency can work with SpaceX to build its n…