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ISRO's Chandrayaan-3 moon mission continues to uncover lunar treasures at Shiv Shakti point
ISRO has reported that the Pragyan rover has observed small rock fragments scattered around the rim…
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Lunar loo: Did Apollo astronauts' 96 bags of poop and urine seed the Moon with life?
During the six Apollo missions that landed on the moon between 1969 and 1972, astronauts left behin…
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Blasting the Moon’s surface with super-concentrated Sun beams could help create usable roads for future lunar rovers!
Hence, in an attempt to find on-site solutions, researchers conducted experiments to investigate th…
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This is why NASA took 50 years to start studying the last few pieces of Moon rocks collected by the Apollo mission
The Apollo mission (1968-72) to the Moon brought 2,196 rock samples to the Earth nearly 50 years ag…
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Lunar bounty: Chandrayaan-3's sulphur discovery could help us get much closer to building Moon colonies
Scientists could use sulphur to create waterless concrete for building Moon bases and produce sulph…
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India walks on the moon as Pragyan rover rolls on to the lunar surface
Chandrayaan-3 mission's Lander Module which touched down on the lunar surface, has rolled out the r…
PTI
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Chandrayaan-3 most significant milestone for planetary exploration: former ISRO chief
The scheduled timing for the soft landing of Chandrayaan-3 on the moon's south pole on August 23, 2…
ANI
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Chandrayaan-3 mission: Only hours left for the lift-off
With only hours left for the lift-off, anticipation is building around the launch India's third lun…
ANI
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Hyped up 'moon cube' discovered by Chinese rover turns out to be a rabbit-shaped rock
China's Yutu-2 rover, on the far side of the moon, drove towards the "mysterious hut" for a better …
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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India's moon lander detected movement near the lunar south pole. It could be the first signs of a moonquake in nearly 50 years.
India is the first country to land near the lunar south pole. Shortly after touchdown, the lander d…
Grace Eliza Goodwin,Jessica O…
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A mysterious rock orbiting Earth appears to be a chunk of the moon that was blasted away by a meteorite
The discovery could rewrite what we know about potentially dangerous space rocks and help better pr…
Marianne Guenot
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Back to the Moon: Space lawyer & planetary scientist tells us what it takes to share the benefits of lunar exploration
NASA is planning to put US astronauts back on the surface of the Moon by the end of 2024. This miss…
PTI
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NASA is paying a company $1 - spread over 3 installments - to collect rocks from the moon's south pole
Colorado start-up Lunar Outpost was already planning to collect material from the room - so giving …
Grace Dean
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Video from China's rock-collecting spacecraft shows the probe stick its landing on the moon
China's space agency announced it had landed its Chang'e 5 probe on the moon. Then it released the …
Susie Neilson,Morgan McFall-J…
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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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China just launched a mission to the moon to collect rock samples — the first time a country will have done so in more than 40 years
The Chang'e-5 mission is the latest step in China's ambitious plan to land on and study the moon. T…
Susie Neilson
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NASA took a photo of China's moon rock-collecting robot on the lunar surface before it rocketed back toward Earth
China's moon lander collected more than 4 pounds of lunar rock, then its ascender blasted the sampl…
Susie Neilson
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China plans three missions to the Moon after discovering a new lunar mineral that may be a future energy source
The mineral, Changesite-(Y), was found in samples obtained by China's space exploration in 2020 and…
Jyoti Mann
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China has built an artificial moon like facility to test tech made for lunar surface
To make the artificial moon facility feel more like the lunar surface, it will be filled with ro…
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The moon is sprinkled with patches of frozen water, NASA scientists discovered. Mining it may be crucial for travel to Mars and beyond.
NASA may need to mine water from the moon to send astronauts into deep space. Two new studies indic…