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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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NASA's Cassini spacecraft just crashed into Saturn - here are the 5 biggest discoveries from the historic mission
NASA's Cassini spacecraft plunged into Saturn's atmosphere on September 15, marking an end to its m…
Emmanuel Ocbazghi,Jessica Orw…
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A mystery rocket crashed into moon and left a 'double crater,' NASA says
NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter spotted a double crater on the moon from a spacecraft impact. S…
Paola Rosa-Aquino
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Mysterious tremors on the moon have been traced back to an unexpected source
Scientists have discovered that tiny moonquakes are being produced from the left-behind descent sta…
Marianne Guenot
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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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Scientists have discovered a mysterious lump on the moon's far side, and it's 5 times bigger than Hawaii's Big Island
The other mission was the Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory (GRAIL), which involved two spac…
Dave Mosher
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Saturn's gravitational pull shredded an ancient moon, creating its iconic rings and unusual tilt, new research suggests
One of Saturn's icy moons may have been ripped apart 160 million years ago, a new study suggests. T…
Paola Rosa-Aquino
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There's something mysterious about Jupiter's many moons
The Galilean moons are still the largest, and probably the coolest, of Jupiter's moons. I…
Meghan Bartels
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Google is giving away 15,000 pairs of solar eclipse glasses to schools across the US
The eclipse will be visible to everyone in the continental United States, but will only be a total …
Chris Weller
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Scientists can't explain these mysterious spots on one of Saturn's most remarkable moons
Enceladus, one of Saturn's moons, has mysterious dark spots on the surface amidst one of the many g…
Emmanuel Ocbazghi,Jessica Orw…
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Astronomers have their best solution yet to the mysterious alien megastructure star
Now, the planet and its moons would have continued to orbit Tabby's Star to this day if not for one…
Kaitlyn Wang,Shira Polan
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A chunk of SpaceX rocket that has drifted through space for years is on a collision course with the moon
Astronomers tracking space junk predict it will crash into the moon in March, making it potentially…
Marianne Guenot
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Chandrayaan 2 will give India bragging rights even if it doesn’t find water
Chandrayaan 2 is set to take off next week in the wee hours of the morning — July 15 at 2:15am I…
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9 phenomena that science still can't explain
Humans have traveled to the moon and uncovered the secrets of the Taos Hum, the Devil's Kettle, and…
dupal
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China just made history by being the first to ever land on the far side of the moon
Chang'e-4 landed in Von Karman a flat landscape that sits inside: South Pole-Aitken basin. The basi…
Jessica Orwig
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James Webb Space Telescope reveals one of the most mysterious worlds in the universe might have a volcanic moon
Mysterious brown dwarfs are neither planets nor stars, but this one somehow has northern lights, me…
Maiya Focht,Morgan McFall-Joh…
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NASA Showcases Stunning View of Jupiter's Moon Europa
Officials of the US space agency NASA have reprocessed the data collected by Galileo spacecraft usi…
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'2001: A Space Odyssey' visual effects artist says recent monolith findings 'would've blown' Stanley Kubrick's mind
In Stanley Kubrick's legendary sci-film film, monoliths are used as a sign of extraterrestrial life.
Zac Ntim
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Scientists just confirmed there are rivers of methane on one of Saturn's moons
A few years ago, the Cassini spacecraft sent back some odd images from a flight it made near the mo…
Meghan Bartels
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ISRO’s Chandrayaan 2 launch is inspiring childhood memories of Karva Chauth and power cuts
The influence of the Moon on India isn’t lost with its references in the many Bollywood songs an…