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Earthshine Helps in Search for Life on Other Worlds
Scientists looking at Earthshine reflected from the moon have concluded that, indeed, there is life on our planet. Though the result may be obvious, the findings can help in the search for life on...
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Russia Plans Moon Base, Mars Network by 2030
Russia plans to send probes to Jupiter and Venus, land an network of unmanned stations on Mars and ferry Russian cosmonauts to the surface of the Moon -- all by 2030, according to a leaked document.
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New NASA Video Depicts the Moon’s Fiery History
The man in the moon might not change from month to month but the lunar surface didn't always look this way. A new NASA video depicts the fiery history of the moon, showing how the familiar shapes we...
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Moon Rock Analysis Casts Doubt on Lunar Origins
A new analysis of lunar minerals shows the moon is more similar to the Earth than thought, challenging the prevailing view of our nearest celestial neighbor formed.
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Adventures of Apollo Astronauts Now Tracked in 3-D
Researchers have used new lunar satellite images to pinpoint exactly where the Apollo 17 astronauts took their iconic photographs of the moon's surface. That data has in turn allowed planetary...
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Space Cases: The Weirdest Legal Claims in Outer Space
Wired takes a look at some of the strangest and most spurious legal claims on outer space.
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NASA’s Next Big Rover to Hunt for Water on the Moon
A joint project between NASA's Kennedy Space Center and the Canadian Space Agency has yielded a lunar rover called Resolve which will search for water sources on the Moon.
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Fly Over the Moon With New High-Res 3D Images
Soar over canyons, mountains, and craters on the moon in amazing high-resolution 3D with these new images from NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO).
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The Craziest Things People Have Proposed Putting on the Moon
A gallery featuring some of the most outlandish, irrational, and downright insane proposals that people have had for things to do on the moon. We've got our list. Think you can come up with something...
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Watch Live: Jupiter Meets Up With Waning Moon
Catch a lovely celestial event as the second and fourth brightest objects in the sky meet up during a conjunction of the waning moon with Jupiter. Live telescope views of both objects will come...
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Space-Based 3-D Printers Could Create Tools For Moon Colony
Shipping stuff to space is expensive. It’s a significant barrier to any form of manned space exploration, let alone colonization. 3-D printing has been suggested as a way to save on weight — if you...
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Twin Gravity-Mapping Probes Peer Into the Moon’s Secrets
Early science results from NASA's mission to study the lunar interior are in -- and the data are great. The moon still holds many mysteries, though.
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NASA’s Lunar Orbiters Preparing to Crash Into Moon
Running low on fuel and with a successful moon-mapping mission behind them, NASA's twin GRAIL probes will leave lunar orbit and crash into the moon on Dec. 17.
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Listen Live as NASA Sends GRAIL Spacecraft Crashing Into Moon
NASA's moon-mapping GRAIL spacecraft will crash into a mountain near the lunar north pole at approximately 2:28 p.m. PT. The space agency will broadcast live commentary during the impact sequence,...
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Doomed Spacecraft Captures Awesome Close-Up Video of the Moon
Three days before the moon-orbiting Ebb spacecraft collided with a lunar mountain, its on-board cameras captured some striking images of the pockmarked moon's northern hemisphere -- from just six miles...
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The Most Badass Moons in the Solar System
Our solar system is full of strange, amazing, gigantic, beautiful, mysterious and truly bad-ass moons. Which is the most bad-ass of them all? You tell us.
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Watch the Biggest Explosion Ever Seen on the Moon
NASA scientists recorded the biggest explosion from a meteorite impact on the moon that they have seen in eight years of monitoring.
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Space: The Final Frontier of Environmental Disasters?
Space is the final frontier in many ways. But as we explore and colonize the solar system around us, it's worth reflecting on the types of environmental harm and degradation we could cause.
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New Moon Discovered Around Neptune in Old Hubble Images
Blue and gassy, the outer planet Neptune hosted 13 known moons until today. Now, there are 14. Announced July 15, the moon known as S/2004 N1 is so small and faint that it escaped detection by NASA's...
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Space Rock Smacks Moon, Creating Biggest Lunar Explosion Ever Seen
Pow! That would be the sound of a giant rock smacking into the moon (if the moon had any atmosphere to carry the sound, of course). But you can imagine the burst coming from the explosion in the video...
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