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NASA is pushing its human moon landing back to 2025, and its top official worries China will beat the US there
Now that Blue Origin's lawsuit against NASA is over, the agency can work with SpaceX to build its n…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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China brought the first moon rocks back to Earth in 45 years. They hint at mysterious volcanic eruptions.
China brought the first moon samples to Earth since 1976. They're lava remnants from a mysterious v…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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NASA is sending a water-hunting lunar rover to a shadowy crater on the moon's south pole
NASA's VIPER rover will descend into permanently shadowed craters on the moon's south pole, where t…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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India's second moon mission Chandrayaan 2 that will cost ₹10 billion will break new records
India's second lunar mission, Chandrayaan 2, set to take off today. It may be India's second trip t…
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Here's why government officials rejected Jeff Bezos' claims of 'unfair' treatment and awarded a NASA contract to SpaceX over Blue Origin
SpaceX beat Blue Origin at every level of NASA's analysis. Here's a few highlights from the point-b…
Grace Kay
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NASA's InSight Mars lander just gave scientists an unprecedented look at the guts of the red planet. Here's how they compare to Earth's.
By analyzing a dozen quakes, NASA's InSight lander has helped scientists estimate the size and make…
Aylin Woodward
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Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin is bidding on NASA's lucrative moon contract again after it lost to SpaceX last year
Last year, Blue Origin sued NASA, calling its decision to choose SpaceX as the sole winner of the c…
Grace Kay
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A mesmerizing NASA video lets you ride with the Juno spacecraft as it flies by Jupiter and its largest moon
Juno flew within 645 miles of Ganymede, Jupiter's largest moon, last week - the closest any spacecr…
Aria Bendix
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The cultural impact of Sailor Moon: How a '90s Japanese anime inspired generations of fans and spun into a global merchandising empire worth billions
"Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon" first debuted on Japanese television in 1992. In the three decades sin…
Dana Givens
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Earth contains buried chunks of an alien world that are 'millions of times larger than Mount Everest,' research suggests
Chunks of dense rock hundreds of miles tall lie in Earth's mantle. They may have come from an ancie…
Aylin Woodward
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Chandrayaan 2 is not just looking for water on the moon
Geologists believe that since there are similarities between the Earth and the Moon, the c…
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'Chandrayaan-3 will be mission repeat of Chandrayaan-2' — may launch early 2021 after delay due to COVID-19 lockdown
"As for Chandrayaan-3, the launch may now take place somewhere in early 2021. Chandrayaan-3 will be…
PTI
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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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India's Chandrayaan 2 takes the lead ahead of America, Russia, and China as the first of many missions to the Moon's South Pole
"The world is targeting the South Pole. It's not just India — the Americans, the Russians,…
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Tell us how you plan on celebrating this Lunar New Year
The Year of the Tiger starts Feb. 1 and sets in motion weeks of Lunar New Year festivities. Insider…
Gwen Aviles,Kristie-Valerie H…
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Experiments Confirm The Existence Of New Superheavy Element 117
Because the discovery has finally been confirmed, the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemi…
Jennifer Welsh
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A new theory challenges everything astronomers thought they knew about how the Moon was created
Lead author Dr Raluca Rufu and her colleagues conducted some mathematical simulations of what it wo…
Lindsay Dodgson
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These new closest-ever photos of Saturn's moon Pan show it looks like a frozen ravioli the size of New York City
The reason it's shaped like a round ravioli is a mystery, but it may be because of radioactive elem…
Dave Mosher
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Made Men: A photo tour of the most notorious sites of New York Mafia history - and what they look like now
From Sparks steak house, to dumping grounds for murder victims, to the hotel where a turncoat fell …
Andrew Lichtenstein
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The most beautiful McDonald's in America is in a former mansion on Long Island
One of the fanciest McDonald's franchises in the US is in a historic mansion in New Hyde Park on Lo…