The Moon Was an Inside Job

New research suggests that Theia, the object whose collision with Earth is theorized to have caused the formation of the moon, came from closer to the sun.

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NASA Gets Moon Lander Plan B’s From SpaceX and Blue Origin

As NASA worries that China will win the next moon race, Elon Musk and his company tangled with critics.

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Kim Kardashian Calls 1969 Moon Landing Fake. NASA Sets the Record Straight.

NASA’s chief, Sean Duffy, set the record straight after Kim Kardashian repeated the conspiracy theory that the 1969 moon landing had been faked.

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Musk Attacks NASA Leader Over Threat to Reconsider Lunar Contract

The billionaire’s swipes at Sean Duffy are the latest example of his tangling with members of the Trump administration.

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NASA Artemis II Astronauts Aim to Make Space Great for All

In a preview of their flight, the crew of Artemis II, three Americans and a Canadian, struck a tone that veered away from the political currents of the moment.

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NASA Picks 10 New Astronauts as Focus Shifts to the Moon and Mars

The 10 astronaut candidates, six of them women, will begin two years of training before becoming eligible for missions to low-Earth orbit and perhaps one day to the moon and Mars.

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U.S. Is Losing Race to Return to Moon, Critics Say, Pointing at SpaceX

The company’s Starship rocket, which has suffered a series of recent test explosions, is still years away from being ready for the mission, former NASA executives say.

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Astronaut James Lovell, Commander of Apollo 13, Dies at 97

He led the three-man crew that survived a near catastrophic explosion in space in 1970, and was later immortalized by Tom Hanks in the movie “Apollo 13.”

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A Public School Enrollment Crisis, and a Nuclear Reactor on the Moon

Plus, remembering “the Willy Wonka of cheese.”

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NASA’s Acting Administrator Calls for a Nuclear Reactor on the Moon

The acceleration of nuclear development is part of the Trump administration’s efforts to focus NASA on human spaceflight. A reactor would be useful for long-term stays on the moon.

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