One of those investigations involved a distinctive deep dive into studying the interior of the moon.

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China’s Tianwen-3 Mars sample return mission could bring Red Planet rocks back to Earth as early as 2031—years ahead of competing U.S.-European efforts ...

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Images of Earth and the moon captured by the Tianwen 2 robotic probe are released on Tuesday by the China National Space ...

Meet Bille, the name given to the world's first monostable tetrahedron—a four-faced object that will always land on the same ...

From the start, Cassini provided us with incredible views of these icy worlds, including Titan, Enceladus, Mimas, Dione, and others ... s study of Titan revealed that this moon, with its thick ...

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In the case of the Moon, for instance, they should be able to capture up to 0.2-meter resolution of the lunar surface from an altitude of 31 miles (50 km).

Well, the verdict is in. The Moon is not made of green cheese after all. A thorough investigation published in May 2023 found that the inner core of the Moon is, in fact, a solid ball with a density ...

The Moon may look gray, but up close it's a whole 'nother story. Left on Bead Over half a century ago, Apollo astronauts encountered something surprising littering the desolate lunar surface: a ...