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New research shows how faint radio signals from the early Universe, soon to be detected by Moon missions, could reveal dark matter's secrets.
New study provides clearer insight into how the Moon formed and why its materials closely resemble those of Earth.
Today, Earth’s moon is uninhabitable and does not contain a trace of life. It does not have much of an atmosphere, a drop of ...
A gem of a find by The Public Domain Review of a collection from the Rijksmuseum: photographs of plaster models of the ...
Scientists created the most accurate three-dimensional map of star-formation regions in our Milky Way galaxy, based on data ...
Scientists created the most accurate 3D map of star-formation regions in our Milky Way galaxy, based on data from the European Space Agency’s Gaia space telescope. The star-formation region that is ...
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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 ...
"This implies that the eastern Mare Imbrium basin may be the current seismically active area of the moon," he said. "If a long-term lunar base is to be established in the future, we should avoid such ...
ARVADA, Colorado — Lunar Outpost, a private space company, is putting the pedal to the metal on its lunar terrain vehicle ...