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Scientists have discovered that tiny glass beads scattered across the moon's surface contain a massive amount of water that can be extracted and used. This discovery could be a major breakthrough for space agencies that plan to build bases on...

The UK Space Agency will give £2.9 million (US$3.5 million) to Rolls-Royce to fund the building of a nuclear reactor. Under the contract, Rolls-Royce is expected to develop a demonstrator modular nuclear reactor that could be deployed on the Moon by...

Nasa has announced that it plans to conduct tests of nuclear-powered rockets that might transport astronauts to Mars at incredible speeds. Together with the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (Darpa) of the United States government, the agency stated on Tuesday...

Buzz Aldrin, the legendary astronaut of Apollo 11 fame, married his longtime girlfriend Dr. Anca Faur at the age of ninety-three. Aldrin is renowned for being the second man to step foot on the moon in 1969. Faur, aged sixty-three,...

January 21st will mark the first new moon of the year and the occurrence of a "supermoon." This phenomenon occurs when the moon is at its closest point to the Earth. The supermoon will be the closest the moon has...

Nasa has brought back to Earth, Orion, its next-generation astronaut ship after a near-26-day mission to orbit the Moon. The Orion capsule splashed down in the Pacific Ocean on Sunday after a fiery re-entry into Earth's atmosphere and a descent...

NASA, the U.S. space agency, says humans should be able to live on the moon for longer periods this very decade based on the successful launch of the Artemis 1 spacecraft. Howard Hu, the leader of the Orion lunar spacecraft...

The last solar eclipse of 2022 will occur on Tuesday, October 25th, when the new moon will orbit between the sun and the Earth, causing a partial eclipse of the sun. The moon's shadow will scrape the north polar regions...

Apollonius of Perga (Greek: Ἀπολλώνιος ὁ Περγαῖος) who lived from 240 BC to c. 190 BC, was a brilliant ancient Greek geometer and astronomer known for his work on conic sections. He was born in Perga, an ancient Greek city of...

NASA's spacecraft, Juno, captured the closest images ever taken in the last two decades of Jupiter's moon, Europa, on Thursday, September 29th, giving us our first really good look at this ice-encrusted ocean world. The images revealed surface features in...