In a two-for-one moonshot, SpaceX launched a pair of lunar landers Wednesday for U.S. and Japanese companies looking to jumpstart business on Earth's dusty sidekick.
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A tiny asteroid loitering in a near-Earth orbit for a few months last year may have an intriguing origin on our moon. Its characteristics led scientists to ask: is it a chip off the old lunar block, making a pass by Earth ...
Planetary Sciences
Jan 15, 2025
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As the Artemis campaign leads humanity to the moon and eventually Mars, NASA is refining its state-of-the-art navigation and positioning technologies to guide a new era of lunar exploration.
Space Exploration
Jan 14, 2025
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As part of its Artemis campaign, NASA is developing a series of increasingly complex lunar deliveries and missions to ultimately build a sustained human presence at the moon for decades to come. Through the agency's CLPS ...
Space Exploration
Jan 10, 2025
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Geologically, Mars is very reminiscent of the moon. But it also looks a lot like the Earth. It all depends on who you ask.
Planetary Sciences
Jan 9, 2025
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Among all the challenges of voyaging to and successfully landing on other worlds, the effective collection and study of soil and rock samples cannot be underestimated.
Planetary Sciences
Jan 8, 2025
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In the next few decades, crewed missions to the moon and Mars will likely become frequent. One of the main challenges faced by these future missions will be the need to protect astronauts from the intense radiation of outer ...
Space Exploration
Jan 7, 2025
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Outer space is infinite, but that hasn't stopped humans trying to impose their laws on it. There are more ways for people to travel to space than ever before, and the next few decades are likely to see the US and China sending ...
Space Exploration
Jan 6, 2025
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A large team of researchers with varied backgrounds at the Chinese Academy of Sciences has found evidence of a weak magnetic field on the moon approximately 2 billion years ago. In their study published in the journal Science ...
By the end of this decade, nations and private companies may well be mining the surface of the moon.
Space Exploration
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