NASA is building a compact seismometer for its upcoming Artemis 3 mission to the Moon, hoping to learn more about the internal structure of the dusty satellite from its lunar tremors.
A month after making a controversial comparison between the biggest movie of last year and his own Netflix hit, director Zack Snyder straightened a few things
The European Space Agency (ESA) launched a Moon mission game in Fortnite that lets you bounce around on the lunar surface, picking up resources and building a habitat in the same way future astronauts will establish human presence on Earth’s dusty satellite.
In an agreement confirmed earlier today, Japan will tap one of its astronauts to join an upcoming NASA Artemis mission to the Moon. Should it happen, that would make the unnamed Japanese astronaut the first first non-American astronaut to land on the lunar surface.
In a rare encounter, two lunar spacecraft crossed paths as they orbited the Moon in opposite directions.
During its early years of formation, the Moon may have undergone a dramatic process as a dense layer of material sunk deeper into its interior, mixed with the lunar mantle, and made its way back to settle on the surface.
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