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What does water look like on the moon? A new lunar probe is on a mission to find out

6:00am February 26, 2025

by Joe Palca

The Lunar Trailblazer orbiter's launch window opens Feb 26. It's catching a ride with Intuitive Machines IM-2 mission which is landing on the moon near the south pole. Both have instruments for looking for water.

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The moon's grand canyons were carved in the blink of an eye

11:01am February 04, 2025

The Earth's Grand Canyon took millions of years to carve, but the moon's grand canyons took about ten minutes.

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The first full moon of 2025 is here

5:10am January 13, 2025

This moon phase is nicknamed the Wolf Moon, which is rooted in Native American culture.

You don't look a day over 4.35 billion! Here's the moon's anti-aging secret

11:01am December 18, 2024

Early interactions with the Earth may have heated up the Moon and caused it to remelt, producing new lunar rocks and erasing old craters.

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NASA delays Artemis II human moon mission once again as it wraps up heat shield investigation

4:32pm December 05, 2024

The mission to take four astronauts on a trip around the moon and back, previously targeting a launch at the end of 2025, has been delayed until at least April, 2026.

China launches new crew to its space station as it seeks to expand exploration

1:41am October 30, 2024

China declared a “complete success” after it launched a new three-person crew to its space station early Wednesday as the country seeks to expand its exploration of outer space.

NASA Administrator Bill Nelson at the space agency's headquarters in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday.

NASA's chief is worried about China getting back to the moon first. Here's why

9:33am May 06, 2024

NASA Administrator Bill Nelson told NPR he sees the U.S. in an urgent race with China to find water on the moon, and that he trusts SpaceX, despite Elon Musk's increasingly controversial profile.

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A new lunar time zone has been pitched for the moon.

NASA has been asked to create a time zone for the moon. Here's how it would work

5:01am April 09, 2024

by Kai McNamee

A new lunar time zone is all about ensuring the success of future, multinational missions to the moon.

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These photos provided by NASA show images from NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera team which confirmed Odysseus completed its landing.

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Odysseus moon lander will cease working after sideways landing

2:12am February 27, 2024

by The Associated Press

Intuitive Machines, the company that built and flew the spacecraft, said it will continue to collect data until sunlight no longer shines on the solar panels, expected to happen Tuesday morning.

The IM-1 Nova-C lander, from Houston-based Intuitive Machines, just became the first private spacecraft to land on the moon in one piece.

Private lunar lander returns U.S. to the moon 50 years later. Here's what to know

9:32pm February 22, 2024

The Houston-based company has pulled off the first successful commercial landing on the lunar surface. It's America's first soft landing in decades.

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