Until now, only about a quarter of the seafloor has been mapped using ships with special sonar equipment. The rest has ...

NEW YORK — Venus will pass between the Earth and sun on Saturday during what's called an inferior conjunction. But don't plan ...

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The spacecraft, about the size of a small car, conducted a series of experiments. It drilled three feet into the lunar soil, took X-ray images of the magnetic bubble that surrounds and protects Earth ...

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India's fourth lunar mission Chandrayaan-4 would not just soft land on the Moon, it will collect lunar samples, vertically ...

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China’s Chang’e 6 mission uncovers evidence of a molten lunar magma ocean and a violent ancient impact.

A team of geologists at the Chinese Academy of Geological Sciences, the Institute of Space Sciences and the Shandong ...