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The far side of the moon was once a vast magma ocean, Chinese lunar lander confirms
New research from scientists with the Chinese Academy of Geological Sciences and published in the journal Science found that ...
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How did Earth get such a strange moon? Exploring the giant impact theory
The leading explanation for all of these mysteries is known as the giant impact hypothesis. According to this story, when the ...
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NASA Accesses Earth's GPS From the Moon in Historic First
NASA has achieved a global (and beyond) first by accessing the Earth's GNSS (Global Navigation Satellite System) from the ...
Mysterious Mars moon captured in unprecedented images by space probe
A space probe named Hera captured images of Mars' small Deimos moon while on a mission to examine an asteroid.
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NASA Moon tech taps into Earth’s GPS from 225,000 miles away in a historic first
On March 3rd, at 2:00 AM Eastern time, history was made. LuGRE successfully acquired and tracked signals from GPS and Galileo ...
NASA uses GPS on the moon for the first time
“On Earth we can use GNSS signals to navigate in everything from smartphones to airplanes,” Kevin Coggins, deputy associate ...
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Two privately-owned spacecraft make contact from the moon
Firefly Aerospace landed a craft safely last week, a first for a private company. But Intuitive Machines’ mission ended when its lander wound up on its side in a crater.
Firefly’s moon lander ends successful mission
Firefly Aerospace managed to stay upright when it landed on the moon two weeks ago and announced Monday it had completed its ...
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NASA just transmitted GPS signals from the Moon for the first time
becoming the first commercial moon taxi to touch down on our celestial neighbor successfully. But the real star of the show ...
Live Updates: NASA Astronauts Leave the I.S.S., Beginning Their Overdue Trip to Earth
Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore headed home in a SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule after problems with a Boeing vehicle set in ...
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NASA Detected GPS Signals From 243,000 Miles Away... on the Moon
For the first time, NASA has detected a signal from the Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) nearly 250,000 miles from Earth ... made space hardware to ever land on the Moon—the mission ...