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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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Mini-moons like the one Earth just captured could be huge business opportunities
Asteroids are ripe for mining. Some contain gold or platinum. Others could help make rocket fuel. W…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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China's historic moon mission is just the start of its plans to dominate space
China's Chang'e-6 lunar probe successfully returned to Earth carrying the first-ever samples from …
Tom Porter
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Joe Biden's Oval Office features a moon rock, a bust of Rosa Parks, and homemade chocolate-chip cookies
In addition to the images of famous activists, President Joe Biden's Oval Office is full of family …
Talia Lakritz
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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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Forget distant fly-bys of giant rocks—this plane-sized asteroid will come within 1.7 million km of Earth this week!
Come Friday, this near-Earth object will make its closest approach to our planet in a decade!
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Japan's moon probe landed upside-down but somehow it still works
Japan's SLIM probe lost a thruster and landed upside-down on the moon, but it still woke up and sta…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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Monday's solar eclipse had nothing to do with the earthquake that rocked the East Coast today
A 4.8 magnitude earthquake rattled NYC, NJ, and even Pennsylvania just days before the 2024 total s…
Ellyn Lapointe,Morgan McFall-…
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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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A rare 'Devil comet' will appear during the 2024 total solar eclipse. Here's how to see the Mt. Everest-sized space rock.
Cryovolcanic Comet 12P/Pons-Brooks, aka the Devil comet or Mother of Dragons comet, may be visible …
Ellyn Lapointe
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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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The mystery of how the moon formed is still puzzling scientists. The secret could lie deep within our planet.
Scientists have several theories for how the moon first formed. The leading hypothesis involves a m…
Marianne Guenot
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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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The 2023 harvest moon is also the last supermoon of the year. Here's the best time to see it when it rises Friday.
September's supermoon is the last of the year, and also a harvest moon. The best time to see the fu…
Sonam Sheth
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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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Moon meteorite in the Western Sahara contains an new mineral that could explain what's happening in the Earth's mantle
A team of European researchers has discovered a new high-pressure mineral named donwilhelmsite in t…
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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…