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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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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 farming: Artemis III astronauts will cultivate plants on the Moon’s surface for the very first time!
Embarking on a celestial gardening expedition of sorts, NASA has set its sights on an ambitious pro…
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We put Elon Musk's dream to colonize Mars up against Jeff Bezos' vision of living in space — and one is more realistic
Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos dream of colonizing space, but have very different ideas of how to do it. …
Ellyn Lapointe
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NASA released the first close-up photos of the largest asteroid sample ever collected
NASA's OSIRIS-REx dropped off the Bennu asteroid sample last month. Scientists discovered the rocky…
Jenny McGrath
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Photos show the 3.86 billion-mile journey of NASA's OSIRIS-REx asteroid sample mission from start to finish
NASA's OSIRIS-REx traveled almost 4 billion miles to get a sample of the asteroid Bennu. Scientists…
Jenny McGrath
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Russia is racing to beat the US, India, and China to the south pole of the moon in its first lunar mission since the 70s
Russia hasn't launched a lunar mission since 1976. It hopes to be the first to carry out a soft lan…
Marianne Guenot
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NASA scientists plan to bake, slice, and fire lasers at the asteroid sample from OSIRIS-REx to understand the creation of our solar system
Scientists plan to methodically examine samples from NASA's first asteroid mission, OSIRIS-REx, to …
Maiya Focht
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Russia launches Luna-25 mission to Moon, its first lunar lander in 47 years
The spacecraft will look for natural resources, including water, and analyse the effects of space r…
ANI
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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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The moon is open for business, and entrepreneurs are racing to make billions
As NASA aims to stay on the moon, private firms are racing to be the first to go where no company h…
Marianne Guenot
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This herb is the magic fertilizer needed to grow vegetables on Mars
Another senior Indian-origin scientist backed this research at Iowa State University, Dr Vijayapal…
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NASA wants to create a marketplace to buy and sell lunar dirt from private companies
NASA has set the goal of landing the first American woman and next man on the Moon by 2024. …
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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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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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Moon dust for $1 — that’s all NASA is paying one of the companies selected to collect lunar samples
The US space agency, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), had doled out contra…
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A NASA spacecraft just landed on an asteroid to suck up rocky dust to bring back to Earth. Here's how the mission works.
NASA's Osiris-Rex could find ingredients for life on an asteroid that might crash into Earth. But t…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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Unprecedented new video shows NASA's Osiris-Rex spacecraft landing on an asteroid and sucking up dust
In NASA's video, the probe creates a flurry of dust and rock — which is how it attempted to collect…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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NASA is rushing to hold onto its first sample of asteroid dust before too much leaks into space: 'Time is of the essence'
A valve on the probe's sample-collecting arm won't close, and bits of asteroid are floating away. T…
Susie Neilson,Morgan McFall-J…
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NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft is about to suck up asteroid rubble for the first time. Watch the risky maneuver live.
The NASA probe will attempt an intergalactic high-five with asteroid Bennu and use a robotic arm to…