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Scientists seem to have figured out why the Moon is made up of such weird heavy rocks — because, as they claim, it turned itself inside out. 
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By Noor Al-Sibai

NASA is quietly teaching a robot dog how to walk on the Moon. Researchers just let one loose on the side of a mountain in Oregon.
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By Victor Tangermann

Representative Sheila Jackson Lee told a high school audience on Monday that the Moon was a "planet" that is "made up of mostly gases."
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By Victor Tangermann

The Korea Pathfinder Lunar Orbiter (KPLO), otherwise known as Danuri, photobomed NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter.
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By Victor Tangermann

The White House released a new memorandum in an attempt to establish a new time standard for the Moon called "Coordinated Lunar Time."
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By Victor Tangermann

The first astronauts to walk the surface of the Moon in almost 50 years will bring a greenhouse to study how crops adapt to the environment.
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By Victor Tangermann

The snake robot, dubbed Exobiology Extant Life Surveyor (EELS), will one day plunge into the subsurface oceans of Enceladus.
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By Frank Landymore

In the wake of NASA's failed private Moon lander debacle, Japan's version is, somehow, still alive and kicking.
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By Noor Al-Sibai

It's official, folks: Intuitive Machines' privately-launched Moon lander, Odysseus, has been pronounced dead.
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By Noor Al-Sibai

As the space race heats up, the US is growing increasingly concerned about China, its chief adversary, using the Moon to launch attacks.
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By Noor Al-Sibai

Scientists suggest the sand dunes on the surface of Saturn's moon Titan may be the crumbling remains of colliding moons.
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By Victor Tangermann

NASA's Odysseus lander kept moving sideways after making it down to the lunar surface. Then, the tall and top-heavy lander tripped.
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By Victor Tangermann

One recently shared image shows damage taken by NASA's Moon lander, with stripped pieces littering the lunar surface behind it.
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By Victor Tangermann

NASA's new Moon lander may have made a relatively safe landing, but all indications point to it being less successful than initially thought.
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By Noor Al-Sibai

The China Manned Space Agency revealed the names of its crewed capsule, as well as a lander, which will lower crews down to the surface.
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By Victor Tangermann

A close-up of a model Odysseus Moon lander on a desk, with Intuitive Machines CEO Stephen Altemus' hand and torso behind it.
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By Noor Al-Sibai

Intuitive Machines is reporting that its NASA-funded Odysseus lunar lander has safely touched down on the Moon.
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By Jon Christian

A private, Space-X launched Moon lander has entered lunar orbit, setting it up for a safe and historic landing.
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By Noor Al-Sibai

Intuitive Machines' Odysseus lunar lander, just sent back some stunning selfies with the Earth in the background as it crosses the gulf.
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By Jon Christian

Elon Musk's SpaceX has launched a privately-owned Moon lander, which could set an historic precedent for the United States.
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By Noor Al-Sibai

The China National Space Administration is encouraging companies to come up with a special device that can squeeze moon soil into bricks
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By Victor Tangermann

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By Frank Landymore

Japan's Moon lander has officially been resurrected after landing at an awkward angle on the lunar surface earlier this month.
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By Victor Tangermann

Scientists have found that the Moon is still shrinking, a process that is causing its surface to become dotted with creases and cracks.
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By Victor Tangermann

During the Apollo 17 mission in 1972, astronauts saw strange flashes of light on the Moon. NASA still wants to catch them on camera.
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By Victor Tangermann

In an extremely unfortunate twist of fate, Japan's Smart Lander for Investigating Moon (SLIM) has landed on its nose.
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By Victor Tangermann

Japan's Moon lander had to be shut down just three hours after touching down. There's still a small chance it can recharge its batteries.
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By Victor Tangermann

Now that NASA is pushing back the Artemis lunar mission again, Congress is more anxious than ever that China will beat the US to the Moon.
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By Noor Al-Sibai

NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) has successfully bounced a laser off of a tiny reflector attached to India's Vikram lander.
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By Victor Tangermann

The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency’s SLIM lunar lander successfully touched down but its solar panels aren't charging.
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By Victor Tangermann

Former NASA administrator Michael Griffin has told US lawmakers that the space agency's plans to return humans to the Moon are terrible.
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By Victor Tangermann

Astrobotic tried to make the US' triumphant return to the lunar surface. Its lander will now burn up in the Earth's atmosphere.
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By Victor Tangermann

NASA's first crewed lunar landing mission in over half a century dubbed Artemis 3 will likely be delayed due to Starship issues.
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By Victor Tangermann

In the most recent update, Astrobotic shared the first photo of its Peregrine Moon lander, perishing in orbit.
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By Victor Tangermann

As humans barrel ever closer to colonizing the Moon, the prospect of lunar mining is also becoming more real.
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By Noor Al-Sibai

NASA's first shot at launching a Moon lander in over 50 years seems almost certainly like it's not going to make it.
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By Noor Al-Sibai

Astronomers have been puzzling over "magic islands" on the surface of Saturn's moon Titan. Researchers now have an answer.
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By Victor Tangermann

The first US lunar lander to have been sent into space in more than half a century is in serious trouble after experiencing an "anomaly."
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By Victor Tangermann

NASA's Juno spacecraft performed its closest every flyby of Io, capturing stunning photos of the ever-shifting surface of this volcanic world.
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By Frank Landymore

NASA has responded to Navajo Nation president Buu Nygren's complaint over space contractors sending cremated human remains to the Moon.
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By Victor Tangermann

The spacecraft Peregrine will be the first American lunar lander built by a private space company if it lands on the Moon successfully.
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By Sharon Adarlo

A French startup signed a contract with the Italian Space Agency to build the "first permanent outpost on the Moon."
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By Victor Tangermann

A piece of Chinese space junk hit the Moon and left a weird pockmark on the surface — but there's more to this story than meets the eye.
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By Noor Al-Sibai

Physics professor Kenneth Ohm has an unusual reason for having his DNA delivered to the Moon's south pole during an upcoming Celestis mission.
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By Victor Tangermann

Thanks to NASA's space probe Juno, astronomers finally have confirmation of salt and organic compounds in Ganymede, Jupiter's largest moon.
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By Frank Landymore

Robin Witt, who helped build NASA's Artemis I rocket, was living her dream. She says that Florida's anti-trans laws cut that dream short.
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By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Blue Origin just unveiled the latest prototype for its NASA moon lander — and it's way jankier looking than the concept art made it seem. 
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By Noor Al-Sibai

NASA has made big moves with its Orion spacecraft, which will soon undergo rigorous testing in anticipation of the Artemis II flight.
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By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A new atomic study of an Apollo 17-era Moon crystal suggests that the Moon formed roughly 40 million years earlier than previously thought.
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By Maggie Harrison Dupré

NASA's Juno satellite captured new images of Jupiter's moon, Io, which has a fiery surface due to its many volcanoes.
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By Sharon Adarlo

After successfully launching its lunar lander, India plans to make history again by sending up its own astronauts to the Moon.
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By Noor Al-Sibai

Chinese scientists are questioning whether India's lunar lander actually ever made it to the area broadly defined as Moon's south pole.
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By Victor Tangermann

Chinese researchers are investigating the feasibility of having astronauts shelter in space inside lava tubes on the lunar surface.
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By Victor Tangermann

India's Vikram lunar lander has yet to "re-awaken" from its prolonged night-time nap, worrying scientists.
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By Victor Tangermann

Japan is sending a tennis ball-shaped rover, which was inspired by children's toys, to the Moon.
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By Victor Tangermann

The Moon quakes just like the Earth — and apparently, the addition of the Apollo 17 base more than 50 years ago made it quake a bit harder. 
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By Noor Al-Sibai

Japan has, for the first time in its history, succesfully launched a mission to the Moon — and it's unlike any other we've seen before. 
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By Noor Al-Sibai

After making it safely to the lunar surface last month, India's Vikram Moon lander just pulled off its next daring stunt.
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By Victor Tangermann

India's Chandrayaan-3 Moon mission rover and lander, Pragyaan and Vikram, are taking a well-earned nap as they await the next lunar sunrise.
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By Maggie Harrison Dupré

NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) has spotted the likely remains of Russia's crash-landed Luna-25 lander on the surface below.
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By Victor Tangermann

If the Kremlin were to be believed, there was nothing wrong with its lunar lander's demise. Officials are seeing the crash as a rallying cry.
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By Victor Tangermann

The Indian Space Research Organization has announced that its Pragyaan lunar lander has discovered sulfur near the lunar south pole.
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By Victor Tangermann

India's small, six-wheeled lunar rover recently encountered an obstacle on the Moon's surface in the form of a ten-foot crater.
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By Victor Tangermann

India is making history in huge ways as it joins the small list of countries to go to the Moon and becomes the first on the lunar south pole.
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By Noor Al-Sibai