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Future Moon Bases Might Be Built in Underground Lava Tubes
Caverns carved out by ancient lava could shelter astronauts from the hazards of moon life
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Ancient Volcanoes May Have Shifted the Moon’s Poles
Ice deposits point to the moon’s old poles
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Five New Things We Learned About Pluto This Week
A new set of studies paints Pluto as a weirder planet than scientists once thought
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Check Out These Photos From Last Night’s Solar Eclipse
Parts of the pacific and Indonesia went dark last night as the moon moved directly between Earth and the sun
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A Solar Eclipse Will Darken Pacific Skies This Week
Though the actual eclipse can only be seen from select locations, don’t miss the live stream of the event online
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Explore the Magnificent and Mysterious Surface of the Moon in Pictures
At the National Air and Space Museum, beautiful images show how the moon’s pockmarked surface is rife with mystery
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Mysterious “Music” Spooked Apollo 10 Astronauts
Archival audio reveals eerie sounds heard by astronauts on the dark side of the moon
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Take 360-Degree Tours of Mars and the Moon
Earth’s neighbors have never seemed so tantalizingly close
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The Moon’s Tidal Forces May Affect How Much It Rains
The higher the moon, the lower the chance of rain
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Get Excited for This Year’s Space-Themed Stamps
The Postal Service honors NASA’s New Horizons Mission and Star Trek’s premiere
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Long-Lost Photos of Eclipses and Stars Found in an Observatory Basement
The stash of old negatives includes a 97-year-old copy of the photo that helped confirm the Theory of Relativity
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China’s Lunar Rover Discovered a New Kind of Moon Rock
The Yutu Rover has discovered a type of basalt unlike anything else ever found on the moon
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How NASA’s Flight Plan Described the Apollo 11 Moon Landing
A second-by-second guide to the historic mission
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Mars’ Gravity Is Slowly Shredding Its Moon Phobos
Telltale grooves on the moon’s surface are an early sign of Phobos’ grim fate
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In a Rare Pairing, a Venus-Like Planet Has Been Found Around a “Failed Star”
The system offers clues to the way planets and moons form and may aid in the quest to find habitable worlds across the galaxy
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Stunning New Views of Enceladus, Saturn’s 6th-Largest Moon
A new flyby has revealed a spidery network of cracks crisscrossing its northern pole
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The Photos of the Rare Supermoon/Lunar Eclipse Convergence Do Not Disappoint
Take in the majesty of the unusual astrophysical event with these photos captured around the world
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50-Year-Old Moon Data Reveals Unseen Earthquakes
Scientists have identified four different types of moonquakes in data left over from Apollo 17
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Earth’s Gravity Is Reshaping the Moon
Leaving cracks on the surface as it slowly contracts
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Plants Might Move with the Moon Just as the Oceans Do with Tides
One researcher calls it the “leaftide”
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