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We were wrong about how the moon's largest and oldest crater formed — and that's great news for NASA's next lunar landing

A new study has revealed that our understanding of the South Pole-Aitken basin was quite literally back-to-front, meaning ...
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There’s Something Really Strange About the Moon’s Largest Crater, Where NASA Astronauts Are Due to Land

The findings could help explain why the Moon’s far side is riddled with large craters, while the more explored near side is ...
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Scientists open untouched Apollo 17 lunar samples from 1972 — they may hold clues about the moon's violent origins

The isotopic ratio of sulfur-33 on the moon differs from that of Earth. Did the moon's sulfur instead come from the impactor ...

The Moon’s Deepest Scar Still Glows With Clues to Its Fiery Birth

When NASA’s Artemis astronauts land near the moon’s south pole, they may be stepping into a region that holds vital clues to ...
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The moon's largest crater didn't form in the way we thought

The impact that carved out the South Pole-Aitken basin on the moon appears to have come from the north, not the south as ...
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NASA’s Webb telescope gets a never-before-seen look at how moons form on exoplanets

Scientists got a never-before-seen look at an area around a large exoplanet 625 light-years away where moons could ...
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The Moon’s south pole hides a 4-billion-year-old secret

A colossal northern asteroid impact billions of years ago likely shaped the Moon’s south polar region and explains its uneven ...