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Serbia becomes latest country to join China’s ILRS moon base project

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Dr. Thomas Hughes

HELSINKI — Serbia has signed an agreement on participating in the China-led International Lunar Research Station. Serbia’s Ministry of Science, Technological Development ...

NASA wants to build a train on the MOON for when humans eventually live there

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Dr. Thomas Hughes

A NASA-funded project aims to develop the first floating lunar railway  They claim this would be ‘critical’ to the operation of a ...

China’s Chang’e-6 is carrying a surprise rover to the moon

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Dr. Thomas Hughes

HELSINKI — China’s Chang’e-6 spacecraft appears to carry a previously undisclosed lunar rover as part of the mission’s far side exploration plans. ...

Now that’s what I call death defying! Scientists suggest building a Wall of Death on the moon to help keep astronauts fit in low gravity

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Dr. Thomas Hughes

Scientists say that running on a ‘Wall of Death’ could keep people fit on the moon Running horizontally generates enough impact to ...

Earth’s New ‘Second Moon’ Is As Big As The Statue Of Liberty—And Scientists Just Found Its Origin

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Dr. Thomas Hughes

Angled view of the Giordano Bruno, Lunar crater, 2016. The height and sharpness of the rim are … [+] evident, as well ...

Watch the incredible moment the International Space Station flew into the Moon’s shadow

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Dr. Thomas Hughes

Video shows moon’s shadow or ‘umbra’ moving from New York to Newfoundland READ MORE: Stunning solar eclipse 2024 brings North America to a ...

How It Turned Itself Inside Out

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Dr. Thomas Hughes

Schematic illustration with a gravity gradient map (blue hexagonal pattern) of the lunar nearside and a cross-section showing two ilmenite-bearing cumulate downwellings ...

Can A Total Solar Eclipse Trigger An Earthquake?

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Dr. Thomas Hughes

21, 2017 in Madras, Oregon. AFP via Getty Images With an earthquake shaking the U.S. East Coast just ahead of a total ...

Scientists call for the creation of a ‘Coordinated Lunar Time’ as they reveal time moves 58.7 microseconds quicker on our lunar satellite than on Earth

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Dr. Thomas Hughes

From Greenwich Mean to Eastern Standard, there’s more than 30 timezones in use today.  But one more may soon be added – ...

Astronauts will plant cress, duckweed and brassica on the lunar surface on the Artemis III mission in 2026

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Dr. Thomas Hughes

NASA plans to grow samples of different plants in miniature lunar greenhouses  This will test whether plants could be grown in lunar colonies ...