India's adorable, dog-sized moon rover did its first science on the moon by shooting powerful laser beams at the surface

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Image of the rover on board India's moon lander.
The Pragyaan rover will be the first robot to drive around on the lunar south pole. What will it find?

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India's Moon Mission Makes Unprecedented Measurements at the Lunar South Pole

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It’s been less than a week since India’s Chandrayaan-3 mission became the first to touch down on the Moon’s south pole, and its lander is wasting no time collecting valuable data from the unexplored region.

What to Know About Wednesday’s ‘Super Blue Moon’

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The second supermoon of the month will rise this Wednesday, August 30. It will be even closer to Earth than the first supermoon of the month, the so-called Sturgeon Moon that rose on August 1.

A rare blue supermoon rising August 30 will be the biggest full moon of 2023 — and won't happen again until 2037

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A supermoon rises behind a downtown office building in Kansas City, Missouri, on April 7, 2020.

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The race to the moon is heating up as lunar resources could top $1 quadrillion in value

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A 3D reconstitution of the India moon lander is seen descending on the moon.
A still from a livestream shows a 3D reconstitution of India's historic moon landing on August 23.

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India becomes the first country to land on one of the moon's lunar poles

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India's Chandrayaan-3 spacecraft landed days after Russia's Luna-25 mission ended in a crash landing. The country is the first to land on one of the moon's lunar poles.

Watch the historic moment India successfully lands on the south pole of the moon, beating the US, China, and Russia

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Indian spacecraft Chandrayaan-3, the word for "moon craft" in Sanskrit, travels after it was launched from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Sriharikota, India.

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The Space Fashions of Zack Snyder's Netflix Saga Rebel Moon

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The trailer for Zack Snyder’s Rebel Moon Part 1: A Child of Fire dropped today giving us our first look at the upcoming

India's Lunar Mission Captures Images of Far Side of the Moon Ahead of Historic Landing

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India’s space agency is gearing up for a lunar touchdown, hoping to stick the landing this time after a failed first attempt nearly four years ago.

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Russia's Luna-25 moon-lander spun out of control and crashed, fumbling an attempt to become the first country to land on the lunar south pole. India is up next.

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Photo of the moon lander Luna-25 in a lab on Earth.
Russia's Luna-25 lander was set to beat India to be the first to land on the lunar south pole. But something went wrong during its descent.

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