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Why is China building a base on the Moon?
With a long-term vision mapped out through 2050, China’s space agencies are setting the stage for a…
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The 2024 harvest moon is the 2nd supermoon and last lunar eclipse this year. Here's the best time to see it when it rises Tuesday.
September 17's full moon will be a supermoon and a harvest moon. A partial lunar eclipse will also …
Jenny McGrath,Jessica Orwig
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Scientists found an underground cave on the moon where astronauts could live and think there may be hundreds more
Scientists have discovered that the moon contains a vast underground cave on the side of a deep pit…
Jessica Orwig,Morgan McFall-J…
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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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Chandrayaan-2 spectrometer maps abundance of sodium on moon for the first time
"Built at the U R Rao Satellite Centre of ISRO in Bengaluru, CLASS provides clean signatures…
PTI
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Chandrayaan 3: Countdown starts for India's third moon mission
35:17 IST ahead of take-off on Friday from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Sriharikota.
ANI
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"Welcome, buddy!" Chandrayaan-2 orbiter greets Chandrayaan-3 lander as they establish communication
In a significant development, the Chandrayaan-2 orbiter which was already fixed around the moon est…
ANI
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Smooth Sailing says ISRO as Chandrayaan-3 Vikram lander gets closer to the Moon
After Russia's Luna-25 mission failed, all eyes will be on India as its Chandrayaan-3 is set to lan…
ANI
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Why Russia and India both crashed near the moon's south pole before India nailed the first soft landing there
Moon landings are rapid, complex, uncertain events where mission operators have no ability to inter…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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Google to shut down entire Assistant Driving Mode Dashboard
Google will shut down the entire Assistant Driving Mode Dashboard on November 21, reports 9To5Go…
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ISRO’s Chandrayaan 2 identifies craters that may have water after mapping 4 million square kilometres of the Moon in its first year
Space agencies and private companies all over the world have their eyes set on the Moon as the next…
Prabhjote Gill
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The most detailed map of the moon's geology ever released may help astronauts explore the lunar surface
Researchers at the US Geological Survey combined six flat maps and data from two spacecraft to crea…
Holly Secon
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Chandrayaan 2’s data release will include the highest-resolution 3D map of the Moon and information from its 8 high tech instruments
The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) has announced that it will be publicly releasing all …
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Researchers successfully grew plants in Apollo-era lunar soil. Their work could inform future space farmers.
Plants grown in moon dirt showed signs of stress, were smaller, and grew more slowly than their cou…
Paola Rosa-Aquino
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NASA releases photos of a new backpack it designed to help astronauts navigate the moon in the dark
The backpack would help astronauts on the planned moon missions map the terrain in 3D in real-time,…
Marianne Guenot
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Side-by-side images from flybys of Europa show close-up views of Jupiter's icy moon over 20 years
During Thursday's flyby, NASA's Juno probe made important observations about Europa, a leading cand…
Paola Rosa-Aquino
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Jupiter's aurora triggered a planet-wide heat wave, a map animation reveals, solving a mystery that's puzzled scientists
A heat wave on Jupiter helped astronomers solve the planet's "energy crisis" mystery. Watch the vid…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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Scholars found a long-lost star map from ancient Greek astronomer Hipparchus hidden beneath layers of medieval Christian text
The map, which was drawn on medieval parchment, is believed to be 2,000 years old.