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Australia’s giant leap in quest for life on the moon
The nation’s first moon rover, or Roo-ver, will gather and analyse fine lunar soil as NASA prepares for the first crewed landing since 1972.
- by Angus Dalton
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Working in silence and no sharp corners: How humans would live on the moon
The inaugural Australian Space Architecture Challenge asked entrants to create a human outpost on Earth’s only natural satellite.
- by Julie Power
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Remains of sci-fi legends burn in Earth’s atmosphere
Aboard a spacecraft that came back to Earth, were the ashes and DNA from about 70 people, including the creator of Star Trek.
- by Marcia Dunn
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Should we even bother going back to the moon?
Even if you don’t see going to the moon as little more than a boys’ own adventure, but with girls allowed this time, it’s hard to see how the economics work.
- by Graham Phillips
'This is the only way to get back to the moon fast': Jeff Bezos's Blue Origin partners with companies on NASA moon lander
Blue Origin joins forces with three other companies to develop its lunar lander designed to help NASA put humans on the moon by 2024.
- by Joey Roulette
Make Earth residential: Bezos wants to move factories to the moon
The world will no longer need to house planet-killing factories and could be rezoned residential, the Amazon billionaire says as he details his space plans.
- by Julie Bort
'Time to go back, this time to stay': Bezos reveals his moon mission
The world's wealthiest man, Amazon boss Jeff Bezos, wants to 'build a road to space' to help future generations colonise Earth's tiny orbiting sibling.
- by Brad Stone
Israel's first moon mission lifts off from Cape Canaveral
The unmanned robotic explorer named Beresheet - Hebrew for "genesis" - lifted off atop a Falcon 9 rocket launched by Elon Musk's SpaceX company.
Israel's first moon mission set to lift off from Florida
The unmanned robotic explorer named Beresheet - Hebrew for "genesis" - is due to lift off from Cape Canaveral atop a Falcon 9 rocket launched by Elon Musk's SpaceX company.
Bright flash shows object slamming into moon during lunar eclipse
It appears that a rock from a comet slammed into the moon during the total lunar eclipse at the weekend, astronomers say.
Total lunar eclipse to meet supermoon
Here comes a total lunar eclipse and supermoon, all wrapped into one.
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