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Previous estimates of its age ranged from 4.26 to over 4.33 billion ... world's first attempt to bring samples from the far side of the moon, was launched on May 3 last year from the Wenchang Space ...

This special lunar event marks the smallest full moon of 2025, occurring when our lunar companion reaches its farthest point from Earth. Experts say the spectacular pairing of the micromoon with the ...

WASHINGTON, April 10 — NASA will prioritise sending astronauts to Mars, President Donald Trump’s pick to lead the US space agency said yesterday, shifting focus beyond a long-planned return to the ...

For instance, the Hubble Space Telescope entered safe mode ... NASA's Juno probe sees active volcanic eruptions on Jupiter's volcanic moon Io (images) — NASA's Juno probe spots massive ...

White dwarves are the compact, shriveled cores of once-mighty stars that have expelled their outer gas layers into space. In the new study, published April 4 in the journal Nature Astronomy ...

"I am hard pressed to think of a more catastrophic mistake we could make in space than saying to Communist China, 'the Moon is yours,'" Cruz continued. But Isaacman insisted both a moonshot and a ...

A new drill experiment built by the European Space Agency to hunt for water near the moon's south pole, will be aboard. 31,181 people played the daily Crossword recently. Can you solve it faster ...

The study, set to be published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters, revealed that the nearly 60m space rock was hockey ... toward potential impact with the Moon (NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/R Proctor ...

Senator Ted Cruz, whose state of Texas includes NASA's Houston-based Johnson Space Center, pressed the nominee on his moon program views, noting intense competition over the moon with China ...

A newly discovered asteroid is on track for a close brush with Earth—and it might even slam into the Moon. Recently, astronomers got a closer look at the giant space rock, revealing its violent ...

Doesn’t Jupiter ... space voyages, and some during what are called “ring-plane crossings”. When the Voyager 1 spacecraft passed by Saturn, it took images that were used to discover the moon ...