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From personal items to trash: Things that have been left on the Moon
The Moon’s vast and desolate landscape is littered with much more than silver dust and craters. Indeed, dozens of space ...
NASA Gave Up a Ride to the Moon. This Startup’s Rover Took It.
After the space agency canceled its VIPER rover, an empty space was available on a private spacecraft that will still head to ...
How an ancient asteroid strike carved out 2 grand canyons on the moon
New research shows that when an asteroid slammed into the moon billions of years ago, it carved out a pair of grand canyons ...
Two Grand Canyon-size valleys on the far side of the moon formed within 10 minutes, scientists say
Two Grand Canyon-size features on the far side of the moon were likely formed in about 10 minutes after an unknown object ...
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35,000 mph speeding rocks ripped 2.2-mile-deep canyons on moon in 10 minutes
Lunar debris slammed into the surface at speeds approaching "1 kilometer per second (3600 kilometers per hour or 2237 miles per hour)." ...
After a wrenching decision by NASA, private lunar lander finds a new customer
However, in lieu of a mass simulator, Astrobotic wanted to see if it could find a more useful payload. So as the company's ...
Blue Origin puts a lunar spin on suborbital research flight of New Shepard rocket ship
For the first time, Blue Origin put its New Shepard suborbital rocket ship through a couple of minutes' worth of moon-level ...