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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 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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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 architecture firm behind Apple's new campus has released designs for a Mars settlement
The British firm was recently shortlisted among 30 finalists for the 3D Printed Habitat Challenge, …
Chris Weller
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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 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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In The Future, Astronauts Could Print Out Their Moon Bases
Foster + Partner's device would print layers and layers of hardened moon dirt over an inflatable do…
Dina Spector
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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…
Susie Neilson,Morgan McFall-J…
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NASA's asteroid-blasting spacecraft has stored over 2 pounds of alien dust and rock to bring back to Earth
Mission scientists raced to stash the asteroid sample because it was leaking into space. Now the pr…
Susie Neilson,Morgan McFall-J…
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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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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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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 picks 4 US small businesses to build Artemis lunar tech
Washington, July 9 (IANS) NASA has selected four US small businesses to develop a range of technolo…
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NASA successfully launches a nearly $1 billion mission to an asteroid millions of miles away
This launch occurred exactly a week after SpaceX's planned launch of a satellite for Facebook explo…