A Lunar Lander’s Busy Day: Eclipse Photos and Rock Collecting
The shadow of the Blue Ghost spacecraft after it landed on the moon, with Earth in the distance. Blue Ghost just completed its mission, which lasted a full lunar day — two Earth weeks — on the near ...
Chang'e-6 samples suggest 4.25-billion-year-old impact formed moon's South Pole–Aitken basin
Scientists have long sought to determine the age of the moon's South Pole–Aitken (SPA) basin, the largest and oldest known ...
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'The universe has thrown us a curveball': Largest-ever map of space reveals we might have gotten dark energy totally wrong
Findings from the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) suggest that dark energy could be evolving over time. If ...
Lunar far side samples bolster theory that the moon was once covered in magma
A team of geologists at the Chinese Academy of Geological Sciences, the Institute of Space Sciences and the Shandong ...
Euclid’s First Big Data Drop Maps 26 Million Galaxies to Illuminate the Dark Cosmos
Although the telescope is just getting started on its mission, it has already delivered some impressive snapshots of the dark ...
Euclid mission data release is step toward grand atlas of the cosmos
The European Space Agency has released its first tranche of data from the Euclid space telescope's mission to map the ...
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Best ever map of early universe is double-edged sword for cosmologists
The finest ever map of the cosmic microwave background - the faint evidence of the universe's early form - has yielded ...