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Humans Are Going to the Moon’s South Pole. This Is How They’ll Drive There

In 2030, about six years from now, American astronauts will return to the surface of the moon. When they land,…

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Scientists pin down the origins of the moon’s tenuous atmosphere

While the moon lacks any breathable air, it does host a barely-there atmosphere. Since the 1980s, astronomers have observed a…

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Rebel Moon’s ‘sexier, bloodier’ Snyder Cut hits Netflix in August

Zack Snyder spent years quietly hyping up his director’s cut of Justice League and activating the #ReleasetheSnyderCut hive before Warner…

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China’s Chang’e-6 mission about to try to land on Moon’s far side

A craft launched from China in May is preparing to land on the far side of the Moon – an…

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Moon orbiting ‘dinky’ asteroid is actually two tiny moons stuck together

When NASA’s Lucy spacecraft flew past its first official target Dinkinesh in November 2023, researchers discovered that the asteroid —…

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‘Tube map’ around planets and moons made possible by knot theory

Just as sat-nav did away with the need to argue over the best route home, scientists from the University of…

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Signs of life would be detectable in single ice grain emitted from extraterrestrial moons

The ice-encrusted oceans of some of the moons orbiting Saturn and Jupiter are leading candidates in the search for extraterrestrial…

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