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One small step towards lunar roads, a potentially giant leap for creating infrastructure on the moon

ASTRONOMY
It may be possible to create paved roads and landing pads on the moon by using lasers to melt lunar soil into a more...

NASA spots new Moon crater, likely caused by crashed Russian probe

ASTRONOMY
NASA has spotted a small new crater on the Moon that was likely caused by a Russian probe crash landing on the surface around...

After Moon landing, India eyes the Sun

ASTRONOMY
Days after becoming the first nation to land a craft near the Moon's largely unexplored south pole, India's space agency said on Monday it...

Chandrayaan-3: Historic India mission enters Moon orbit, aiming for south pole

ASTRONOMY
Chandrayaan-3, India's latest Moon mission, has entered the lunar orbit, the country's space agency has said. The spacecraft with an orbiter, lander and a rover...

The moon may be the best place to transport rocket fuel

ASTRONOMY
When astronauts return to the moon in the next few years, the plan is to have them stay for good while establishing a permanent...

Large asteroid to zoom between Earth and Moon

ASTRONOMY
A large asteroid will safely zoom between Earth and the Moon on Saturday, a once-in-a-decade event that will be used as a training exercise...

Buzz Aldrin, second man on the Moon, marries on 93rd birthday

MARS
Legendary Apollo 11 astronaut Buzz Aldrin, the second person to set foot on the Moon, said he had married his longtime girlfriend on Friday,...

Large volcanic outburst discovered on Jupiter’s moon Io

ASTRONOMY
A large volcanic outburst was discovered on Jupiter's moon Io by Jeff Morgenthaler of the Planetary Science Institute using PSI's Io Input/Output observatory (IoIO). PSI...

Scientists investigate potential regolith origin on Uranus’ moon Miranda

ASTRONOMY
In a recent study published in The Planetary Science Journal, a pair of researchers led by The Carl Sagan Center at the SETI Institute...

New study says left-over planetesimals, not asteroids, created the moon’s largest craters

ASTRONOMY
The moon's pock-marked surface tells the story of its history. It's marked by over 9,000 impact craters, according to the International Astronomical Union (IAU.)...

Japanese company’s lander rockets toward moon with UAE rover

ASTRONOMY
A Tokyo company aimed for the moon with its own private lander Sunday, blasting off atop a SpaceX rocket with the United Arab Emirates'...

NASA’s Orion capsule blazes home from test flight to moon

ASTRONOMY
NASA's Orion capsule made a blisteringly fast return from the moon Sunday, parachuting into the Pacific off Mexico to conclude a test flight that...
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