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Scientists open untouched Apollo 17 lunar samples from 1972 — they may hold clues about the moon's violent origins

The isotopic ratio of sulfur-33 on the moon differs from that of Earth. Did the moon's sulfur instead come from the impactor ...

The Moon’s Deepest Scar Still Glows With Clues to Its Fiery Birth

When NASA’s Artemis astronauts land near the moon’s south pole, they may be stepping into a region that holds vital clues to ...
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There’s Something Really Strange About the Moon’s Largest Crater, Where NASA Astronauts Are Due to Land

The findings could help explain why the Moon’s far side is riddled with large craters, while the more explored near side is ...

Moon's largest crater harbors secret on south pole where NASA astronauts will land

Could Artemis III astronauts collect some lunar samples that shed light on the moon's mysterious past? That's what a team of ...
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The moon's largest crater didn't form in the way we thought

The impact that carved out the South Pole-Aitken basin on the moon appears to have come from the north, not the south as ...
Science Daily

The Moon’s south pole hides a 4-billion-year-old secret

A colossal northern asteroid impact billions of years ago likely shaped the Moon’s south polar region and explains its uneven ...
ScienceAlert

The Moon's Largest Crater Has Something Odd Going on – And Astronauts Are Heading There

The gravitational interaction between the Earth and Moon has led to one hemisphere of the Moon being locked facing away from ...

Snoopy’s NASA journey, from Apollo to Artemis, shines as Peanuts turns 75

For Peanuts’ 75th anniversary, see how Snoopy’s 55+ year NASA partnership — from Apollo 10 and the Silver Snoopy to Artemis I — continues to inspire spaceflight.