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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With a speed of 9 km per second (33 000 km/h), this is the fastest jetstream of its kind ever measured in the Universe ... The extreme nature of the weather on this planet may be because ...

Oxygen isotope identity of the Earth and Moon with implications for the formation of the Moon and source of volatiles. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences , 2024; 121 (52) DOI: 10.1073 ...

On Sept. 13, 1959, the former Soviet Union's Luna 2 was the first spacecraft to contact another solar system body. The lunar impact point for the probe was Palus Putredinis, a small lunar mare in ...

The moon is expected to turn an eerie blood-red above the skies of the U.S. in the coming months, due to a rare total lunar eclipse. Late on March 13 and in the early hours of March 14 this year ...

In our new paper, published in Nature Astronomy ... exists somewhere in the universe. Less than 2 percent disagreed, with 12 percent staying neutral. So, based on this, we might say that there ...

Two lunar landers built by private companies in the US and Japan have left Earth aboard a SpaceX rocket as part of a rideshare to the Moon. The Falcon 9 took off from the Kennedy Space Center in ...

Not one but two private firms each launched spacecraft to the Moon today — a sign of companies’ growing interest in lunar exploration, a risky enterprise long dominated by government agencies.