JWST hunts for an 'Earth-moon' twin in a habitable zone, but the star has other plans

The moon has played a huge role in the development of Earth. It stabilizes the planet, tempers dramatic climate swings, and ...
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NASA wants to build a base on the Moon by the 2030s, How and why it plans to build up to a long‑term lunar presence

The next U.S. trip to the moon isn't about planting a flag. It's about learning how to live and work there. NASA has just reset its Artemis program, marking a clear strategic shift: Space exploration ...
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The Mars-sized object that created our moon may have been more iron-rich than suspected, study finds

The Moon’s origin story may be due for a rewrite. It is widely accepted that nearly 4.5 billion years ago, soon after the solar system was formed, a Mars-sized proto planet, aka Theia, collided with a ...
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NASA set for first crewed moon return in over half a century

People photograph NASA's next-generation moon rocket, the Space Launch System (SLS) rocket with the Orion crew capsule, on Pad 39B ahead of the Artemis II mission launch at the Kennedy Space Center in ...
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The moon is slowly escaping... and we can’t stop it

The Moon isn’t fixed in the sky — it’s slowly moving away from Earth every single year. The change is tiny, just over an inch annually, but over billions of years it has completely reshaped our planet ...