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The last supermoon of 2022 will outshine NASA's favorite meteor shower Thursday night. To see both, you need a dark spot and good timing.
NASA says the Perseids fireballs are the best meteor shower. The supermoon may outshine them, but y…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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A 'ring of fire' solar eclipse will be visible in the sky on Thursday. Here's how to spot the rare event.
An annular solar eclipse will form in the sky at 6:53 a.m. ET on Thursday. The sight is partially v…
Aria Bendix
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NASA's lunar satellite has photographed China's lander on the far side of the moon - here's the first image
"[A]s LRO approached the crater from the east, it rolled 70 degrees to the west to snap this specta…
Dave Mosher
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China says it has grown the first-ever plants on the moon on its historic mission to the far side
China's space agency has said its objective behind its mission to the far side of the moon is to le…
Sinéad Baker,Sinéad Baker,Sin…
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China releases detailed 360-degree photo from the first mission to land on the far side of the moon
Shortly after the lander and rover began their work, however, the China National Space Administrati…
Dave Mosher
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China's rover and lander on the moon's far side are taking a 'nap' to survive brutal surface temperatures
The car-size Chang'e 4 lander safely touched down on January 3 inside the Von Kármán crater, which …
Dave Mosher
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NASA is developing plans to build an enormous, Arecibo-like telescope inside a crater on the moon
NASA researchers are plotting out how robots could build a radio telescope inside a moon crater. It…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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Photos show Chinese lunar rover making tracks on the far side of the moon as it starts historic exploration mission
China's landing was the first-ever successful "soft-landing," which means a landing without damage,…
Sinéad Baker,Sinéad Baker,Sin…
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China says it will launch 2 robots to the far side of the moon in December on an unprecedented lunar exploration mission
"The name Queqiao means 'magpie bridge' in Chinese and comes from a Chinese folk tale, a love story…
Dave Mosher
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Differences between earth and the moon
Moon has always evoked the imaginations of humans in several ways. Moon’s light is highly subdued …
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NASA just released an incredible new video of the rarely-seen dark side of the moon passing in front of Earth
The moon is slightly tilted on its axis and it orbits the Earth on an elliptical path, so occasiona…
Kelly Dickerson
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Space 2021: All the Mars landings, eclipses, astronaut flights, rocket launches, and other big missions to look for this year
In 2021, we'll see nine meteor showers. Boeing and SpaceX should launch humans into orbit, and NASA…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen,Susie N…
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How a US government program advocated using nuclear explosions for construction, farming radioactive crops, and blasting holes in the moon
In the 50s and 60s, the US dreamed up ways to bring nuclear tech into everyday life — like bu…
Marianne Guenot
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Netflix's new movie 'Over the Moon' has a direct connection to 'The Wizard of Oz' you may overlook
You may wonder how much of Fei Fei's adventure actually happened in "Over the Moon." Director Glen …
Kirsten Acuna
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China’s lunar rover does what India’s Chandrayaan 2 is hoping to do on the Moon’s South Pole
The Chinese space agency describes it as a 'gel with mysterious lustre'. Yutu 2 was actuall…
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NASA patented a faster, cheaper route to the moon. The first spacecraft to use it could make Nobel Prize-winning discoveries about the universe.
NASA's patenting a new route to lunar orbit assures that the path will remain open to any spacecraf…
Dave Mosher
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Tonight's 'super snow moon' will be the biggest and brightest full moon of 2019. Here's why.
February's "super snow moon" will occur just six hours after a perigee distance of 221,681 miles, a…
Dave Mosher
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Evidence of water on moon’s surface, but terms and conditions apply
This development comes from studying the infrared measurements taken by NASA’s moon mineralogy m…
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Indians waiting for lunar eclipse will miss the blood moon
The total lunar eclipse of the year will not be visible from India. It will be a 'super wolf moon.'
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Twitter users mercilessly mocked Trump after he tweeted implying the moon is part of Mars
Trump's tweet was most likely responding to a segment on Fox Business - one of Trump's most frequen…