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We were wrong about how the moon's largest and oldest crater formed — and that's great news for NASA's next lunar landing

A new study has revealed that our understanding of the South Pole-Aitken basin was quite literally back-to-front, meaning ...

Moon's largest crater harbors secret on south pole where NASA astronauts will land

Could Artemis III astronauts collect some lunar samples that shed light on the moon's mysterious past? That's what a team of ...

NASA Couldn’t Get Its Rover to the Moon, So Blue Origin Will Do It Instead

NASA’s water-hunting lunar rover was given a second chance to reach the surface of the Moon. Blue Origin will deliver VIPER to the Moon on an upcoming lunar lander mission, resurrecting the ...
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There’s Something Really Strange About the Moon’s Largest Crater, Where NASA Astronauts Are Due to Land

The findings could help explain why the Moon’s far side is riddled with large craters, while the more explored near side is ...

4-Billion-Year-Old Cosmic Secret Hides Right Where Artemis Astronauts Will Land On The Moon

The Moon's largest, most ancient crater, the South Pole-Aitken (SPA) basin, could rewrite the textbooks on how our Moon was ...

How NASA, SpaceX and America can still win the race to the moon

A full moon is seen behind the Artemis I Space Launch System (SLS) and Orion spacecraft, atop the mobile launcher, are ...
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'This is how I'm going to land': New NASA astronaut candidate's helicopter skills could come in handy on the moon

New NASA astronaut candidate Ben Bailey thinks that his 2,000 flight hours here on Earth might come in handy during a moon ...
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Landing on the Moon is an incredibly difficult feat - here's how 2025 is shaping up

Half a century after the Apollo astronauts left the last bootprints in lunar dust, the Moon has once again become a destination of fierce ambition and delicate engineering. This time, it's not just ...

Arizona scientist wants NASA astronauts to collect lunar crater samples. Here's why

Solving a lunar mystery? Scientist at the University of Arizona is the lead author on research proposing a new theory for the ...

How America fell behind China in the lunar space race—and how it can catch back up

The first of these was the loss of space shuttle Columbia in February, the second fatal shuttle accident, which signaled that ...

Chandrayaan-2’s new frontier: How ISRO detected solar storms on moon

When India launched Chandrayaan-2 in 2019, the mission was widely seen as a bold attempt to soft-land on the Moon. But even ...