NASA Proposes New Kind of Moon Shot: Literally Shooting the Moon
Multiple bullets containing a tiny spectrometer could be shot into the lunar soil by an astronaut or rover, allowing analysis ...
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Lunar samples reveal exactly when the moon’s largest crater formed
the same collision that created these crystals probably formed the South Pole-Aitken basin, the largest crater on the moon, ...
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The moon might still have active volcanoes, China's Chang'e 5 sample-return probe reveals
China's Chang'e 5 mission brought back evidence that the moon had erupting volcanoes just 120 million years ago.
Hidden craters reveal Earth may once have had a ring—like Saturn
The rings of Saturn are among the most famous and spectacular features in the solar system. Earth may once have had something ...
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Is it possible that volcanoes existed on the Moon far later than previously believed?
“Beautiful, beautiful. Magnificent desolation,” astronaut Buzz Aldrin famously said when he first stepped onto the Moon’s ...
The moon had surprisingly recent volcanic activity, samples from Chinese space mission confirm
Volcanoes were erupting on the moon as recently as 120 million years ago, evidence collected by a Chinese spacecraft suggests ...
9 phenomena NASA astronauts will encounter at Moon's south pole
NASA's Artemis campaign will send the first woman and the first person of color to the moon's south polar region, marking ...
Volcanoes may have existed on the moon far more recently than we thought
The study examined beads of volcanic glass collected by the Chang’e-5 mission, which landed on the moon in December 2020, and ...
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Asteroid 10 times bigger than the dinosaur-killing space rock smashed Jupiter's largest moon off its axis
New simulations show that Jupiter's massive moon Ganymede was knocked off its axis when it was struck by a roughly ...
Our Moon Experienced Surprisingly Recent Volcanic Activity
Three tiny glass beads, from a sample of 3,000 taken from the Moon, have revealed evidence of recent volcanic activity.
Google Maps user stumbles upon what could be crater from impact of giant asteroid
A camper scrolling through Google Maps has stumbled upon what could be a crater caused by a giant asteroid impact in Canada. Joël Lapointe discovered the likely crater with a spherical pit of about ...