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NASA's InSight lander sent this final photo before dying after 4 years studying Mars quakes, dust devils, and meteor impacts
InSight revealed Mars's interior to scientists for the first time by capturing more than 1,300 Mars…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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China's groundbreaking lunar rover found nearly 40 feet of dust on the far side of the moon
Lunar dust, also called regolith, is a talc-like substance of pulverized rock and dust that settled…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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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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Wavering NASA lander detects biggest Mars quake yet, even as dust drains its energy
NASA's InSight lander is fighting a layer of Mars dust that's covering its solar panels and causing…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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A lunar eclipse will bring a blood red moon on Election Day — the last one for 3 years
All the sunrises and sunsets across Earth will paint the moon blood red on the morning of Election …
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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NASA's James Webb Space Telescope imaged Jupiter's rings and moons, in white-hot infrared
NASA's new Webb telescope is powerful enough to capture galaxies 13 billion light-years away, and s…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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Moon Juice, a Goop-like wellness company, threw its compost in the trash and promoted a manager accused of racist comments, ex-employees say
People buy Moon Juice believing in its virtuous image, one ex-employee said. "It makes me angry tha…
Katie Warren
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New James Webb Space Telescope photos of Jupiter show stunning auroras, faint rings, and tiny moons
The powerful infrared telescope captured images of Jupiter's auroras, which are the brightest in th…
Paola Rosa-Aquino
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A mind-boggling photo from NASA's Lucy probe shows how far the moon is from Earth. Can you spot it?
NASA's Lucy spacecraft snapped a rare photo of Earth and the moon together. The moon is farther and…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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Scientists develop cosmic concrete made of extraterrestrial dust and human waste to construct a house on Mars
Planning to build a house on Mars may now be easy as scientists have created a concrete-like mate…
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NASA is studying how to build a Wi-Fi network on the moon in the hope it could solve Earth's digital divide
A NASA study explores the idea of a lunar Wi-Fi network to help fix inadequate internet services in…
Zahra Tayeb
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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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ISRO's Chandrayaan 1 spots rusting on the Moon — NASA scientists believe Earth's atmosphere could be the reason why
Another sign that the Moon’s poles are home to water has emerged from the Chandrayaan 1’s data. …
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Building blocks of life discovered in Titan’s atmosphere — NASA discovers a ‘weird’ molecule on Saturn’s largest moon
This is a big deal because out of over 200 moons within our solar system, and 62 that belong to …
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Astronomers spotted a distant planet in the middle of making its own moon
The disc surrounding this planet has enough dust and gas to form three moons the size of our own. T…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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The Lyrid meteor shower will leave 'glowing dust trains' across the sky on Thursday. Here's how to watch.
Every April, Earth passes through a trail of debris left behind by a comet. As debris enters our at…
Aylin Woodward
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After 10 years of trying, NASA finally bounced its first-ever laser beam off the lunar orbiter
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has been bouncing lasers off the Moon sinc…
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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…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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Earth’s natural satellite Moon is surrounded with asymmetrical clouds
The dust cloud increases in density when annual events like the Geminids meteor shower spew shoot…
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The Orionid meteor shower peaks this week, but a Hunter's Moon will make shooting stars harder to spot
The Orionids appear when Earth travels through debris from Halley's Comet. But the full moon will l…