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We were wrong about how the moon's largest and oldest crater formed — and that's great news for NASA's next lunar landing
A new study has revealed that our understanding of the South Pole-Aitken basin was quite literally back-to-front, meaning ...
Because the Earth is doing the work of increasing the Moon's momentum, the Earth's rotation slows down in turn, as its momentum goes to the Moon. To put it another way, as the Moon's orbital momentum ...
The moon is weird. It's completely unlike anything else in the solar system. So how did our planet end up with such a special ...
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The moon's largest crater didn't form in the way we thought
The impact that carved out the South Pole-Aitken basin on the moon appears to have come from the north, not the south as ...
The Moon is getting 1½ inches (3.8 centimeters) farther away from the Earth every year. Scientists measure the distance to the Moon by bouncing lasers off mirrors placed there by space probes and ...
Lunar dust collected by Apollo 17 astronauts in the 1970s has revealed that the moon is 40 million years older than previously believed. After landing on the moon on December 11, 1972, NASA astronauts ...
The NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope has provided the first direct measurements of the chemical and physical properties of a potential moon-forming disk encircling a large exoplanet. The carbon ...
DOTHAN, Ala. (WTVY) - Within a couple of weeks, much of the Western Hemisphere, including the Wiregrass, will have a front-row seat to an astronomical wonder. And you won’t even need a telescope to ...
A total lunar eclipse will be viewable in all of the lower 48 states on the night of Thursday, March 13, into Friday, March 14. A total lunar eclipse occurs when the Earth is positioned between the ...
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