Two research teams have identified possible landing sites for Luna 9, the first human-made object to safely reach the lunar ...

Only one of these patches of lunar plain can be Luna 9’s actual landing site – and there’s no guarantee that either of them is. But the search is oddly compelling.

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Jupiter’s moon Europa is one of the most hostile environments in the solar system, blasted by radiation strong enough to kill a human in hours. Yet beneath its frozen surface may lie a saltwater ocean ...

This is one of the most replayed Apollo moments for a reason: it sounds wrong. The astronauts reach the far side, lose ...

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Two rival teams — one using machine learning, the other human eyes — race to find the first spacecraft to soft-land on the moon.

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Luna 9's landing was a pivotal moment in history. Airwolfhound via Wikimedia Commons under CC-BY-2.0 On February 3, 1966, a Soviet spacecraft called Luna 9 showed the world it was possible to land on ...

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