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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...

Looking back from beyond the moon: How views from space have changed the way we see Earth

ASTRONOMY
A photograph taken by NASA's Orion spacecraft has given us a new perspective on our home planet. The snap was taken during the Artemis I...

Methods for building lunar landing pads may involve microwaving moon soil

MARS
Establishing a moon base will be critical for the U.S. in the new space race and building safe and cost-effective landing pads for spacecraft...

NASA Moon rocket launch delayed again, this time by storm

ASTRONOMY
NASA again rescheduled its long-delayed uncrewed mission to the Moon on Tuesday as Tropical Storm Nicole churned toward the east coast of Florida, officials...

A close encounter with a mysterious moon

ASTRONOMY
In 1877, American astronomer Asaph Hall discovered two small moons circling the planet Mars, later named Phobos and Deimos after the Greek for "fear"...

Chang’E-5 samples reveal how young volcanism occurred on the moon

ASTRONOMY
A new study led by Prof. Chen Yi from the Institute of Geology and Geophysics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (IGGCAS) provides an...
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