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The far side of the Moon sees its share of sunlight – it’s dark only in the sense that it’s mysterious because it’s never visible from Earth. Here’s why.
Israel’s first moon mission failed to land successfully on the moon’s surface.
There is currently no launch vehicle capable of launching astronauts to the moon in one go.
Objects left on the Moon are not just abandoned rockets and rovers. There is a lot of historic and sentimental memorabilia. Some of it hints at a mission that the first Moonwalkers almost forgot.
The private space race is about to take another great leap as Israel sends a private lander to the moon.
Fifty years ago people saw our planet from the outside for the first time.
After the first moon landing, the feelings that propelled a unified national mission quickly dissipated. Could Armstrong have played a bigger role in galvanizing the public for future projects?
It has been 10 years since Elon Musk’s SpaceX launched the commercial space age. What hurdles must be overcome before private companies begin exploring, colonizing and mining other planets?
The moon is our closest neighbour and our best hope for building capacity to explore space.
Fifty years ago, on July 20, 1969, American astronauts planted a US flag on the moon. A space lawyer explains the implications, who owns the moon, and what it means for lunar mining.
There are plenty of astronomical things to watch out for this year beyond this week’s lunar eclipse, including new Moon landings and a space station falling back to Earth.
We’ve only travelled into space in the last century, but humanity’s desire to reach the moon is far from recent.
It’s been a good year for conspiracy theorists, so they say.
Rational arguments and myth busting often won’t help you change the mind of a conspiracy theorist. But there are other ways.
We could learn a lot from any mission to send people to Mars, such as whether there’s life elsewhere in the universe or even the technology for new household appliances.
The Moon belongs to all of us. Let’s share in its beauty from afar without splashing around $100 million on a showy space trip.
Often eclipsed by Apollo 11, the final manned moonshot left far more than bootprints in the dust. In these troubling times, it also left us with a lasting message of hope.
The 50th anniversary of Luna 9’s first soft moon landing reminds us how difficult landing a spacecraft is.
Who will preserve the first lunar landing site at Tranquility Base for future generations? It seems an odd question given the fact that this extraordinary archaeological site was created on July 21, 1969…
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Post Doctoral Research Fellow in Space Science, University of Birmingham
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Podcast host, The Conversation
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Professor of Robotics, Head of Centre for Robotics Research, King's College London
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Professor of Planetary and Space Sciences, The Open University
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