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Photographing the Moon: One Man’s Quest to Capture the Lunar Surface
Rutherfurd’s Moon images are beautiful, but they also marked an important leap forward for scientific imaging through their ...
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NASA Just Confirmed the Sun Is Creating Water on the Moon – Here’s What It Means for Future Missions
In a breakthrough that could reshape future lunar exploration, NASA researchers have confirmed that the solar wind—a stream ...
NASA Research Reveals Solar Wind Could Create Water On The Moon's Surface
The creation of water on the lunar surface is possible, according to NASA, because the Moon lacks an atmosphere. Unlike the ...
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Huge differences found between the Moon’s near and farside
Scientists have long noted differences between the lunar near side and far side. While the near side periodically passes ...
Watch as the moon's shadow races across the US on the first anniversary of last year's total solar eclipse — Earth from space
Multiple spacecraft captured the moon's shadow sweeping across North America at more than 1,500 mph during the 2024 total ...
Tuesday Telescope: A rare glimpse of one of the smallest known moons
By contrast, Deimos is tiny, with a radius of 6 km, and quite a bit further out, more than 23,000 km from the surface. It is so small that, on the surface of Mars, Deimos would only appear about as ...
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Make solar panels out of the Moon to let us live in space, scientists say
The work follows similar research that has looked at possibilities for extracting water from the Moon’s surface, and building bricks for houses out of the dust that is found there. Like other ...
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Robot With Large Drill Headed for Surface of Moon
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched a lunar lander from NASA's Kennedy Space Center on Wednesday, kicking off the latest attempt to touch down on the Moon's surface. Houston-based startup Intuitive ...
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The moon's exploitation sparks a legal and religious debate
The Navajo, along with other Native American groups, have argued that the regulations currently in place allow for the unwarranted exploitation of the moon's surface. From our morning news ...
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Scientists Get Real About the Chances for Alien Life on Saturn’s Moon Titan
Glycine has been found on Titan’s surface, but scientists wondered whether enough of it could make its way to the moon’s liquid oceans. Those oceans—where life would have the best chance of ...
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Moon dust may help astronauts power sustainable lunar cities. Here's how.
Moon dust is quickly becoming a magic material, from which oxygen and other elements such as titanium can be extracted, that ...