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Earth’s outermost atmosphere is so big that it engulfs the Moon. A cloud of hydrogen atoms, known as the geocorona, makes up the distant reaches of the planet’s atmosphere. The geocorona’s full extent has long been a mystery, and Apollo astronauts captured a picture of...

With support from a NASA education programme, mechanical-engineering student Jessica Frantz hopes to launch an aerospace career. Jessica Frantz is an undergraduate student in mechanical engineering at Arizona State University in Tempe. Credit: Arsh Nadkarni PDF version It might look like someone made it in...

The natural cavern might have inspired the layout of Teotihuacan, one of the biggest cities in the ancient world. A secret cave hidden underneath a Mexican pyramid offers clues about the urban design of Teotihuacan, one of the largest and most vibrant cities of ancient...

Earth might be blowing some of the raw ingredients for water to the Moon. Charged particles flowing from the Sun bombard the Moon’s surface. Among them are protons, which bond with oxygen to make some of the Moon’s water. But for several days a month,...

The spherical Daedalus concept robot could roll around in lunar lava tubes. There could be hidden worlds lurking under the surface of the moon. Scientists have spotted openings to what they expect are subterranean tubes, underground tunnels that were once filled with lava. The challenge...

Elon Musk’s rocket company was the only one selected to provide the spacecraft that’ll take the next humans to the lunar surface. The next humans to visit the surface of the moon will catch a ride courtesy of not only NASA, but Elon Musk and...

As NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft prepares to briefly touch down and collect a sample from the asteroid Bennu in October, the mission’s science team, led by the University of Arizona, has worked meticulously to create the highest resolution global map of any planetary body, including Earth....

Before the Apollo era, the moon was thought to be dry as a desert due to the extreme temperatures and harshness of the space environment. Many studies have since discovered lunar water: ice in shadowed polar craters, water bound in volcanic rocks, and unexpected rusty...

In-situ resource utilization (ISRU) is becoming an increasingly popular topic as space exploration begins to focus on landing on the surface of other bodies in the solar system. ISRU focuses on making things that are needed to support an exploration mission out of materials that...

It was the biggest piece of supposed fake news before the term “fake news” was even invented. Millions of people across the world still believe that no one has ever walked on the Moon, and that the images that NASA broadcast in July 1969 were...