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India aims for 1st landing near moon’s south pole
The moon's south pole has never been explored from the ground, but India's new Chandrayaan-2 mission will attempt a 1st-ever landing there, with a rover, this September.
May 10, 2019
Unfathomably deep oceans on alien water worlds?
Distant water exoplanets might have oceans thousands of miles deep. That's in contrast to Earth's ocean, which is about 6.8 miles (about 11 km) deep at its deepest point.
May 9, 2019
Was moon created from proto-Earth magma?
A new study suggests that our moon formed from a splash of magma when a large object crashed into a proto-Earth covered in a fiery ocean.
May 9, 2019
Why Pluto is losing atmosphere: Winter is coming
Pluto's orbit is very elongated. Right now, it's in a part of its orbit where its distance from the sun is steadily increasing. That fact is devastating its atmosphere.
May 8, 2019
Researchers find water in samples from asteroid
Researchers have discovered water in tiny dust particles from asteroid Itokawa. Japan's Hayabusa spacecraft brought the asteroid dust to Earth in 2010.
May 8, 2019
Today in science: Neil Armstrong’s close call
On May 6, 1968 - more than a year before his famous first moonwalk - Neil Armstrong narrowly escaped disaster during a training exercise, at the same time demonstrating the right stuff.
May 6, 2019
Beetles steer by the Milky Way
When dung beetles grab a prized bit of food, they hurry off in a straight line. To be able to do this, they have to be able to see the stars.
May 6, 2019
NASA to fund research on advanced solar sails
Solar sails use faint pressure from sunlight to propel a spacecraft forward. A next-generation solar sail - called a diffractive solar sail - might be made of metamaterials, or smart materials.
May 5, 2019
Researchers find icy corridor on Saturn’s giant moon
While searching for the source of methane on Saturn's large moon Titan, researchers found a completely unexpected corridor of methane ice wrapping nearly halfway around the moon.
May 5, 2019
Insight lander captures sunrises, sunsets on Mars
Sunrises and sunsets on Mars, captured by the camera on NASA's InSight lander.
May 5, 2019
