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As humanity looks toward future bases on the moon, plant cultivation will be critical for sustaining life there. Plants can provide food, oxygen, medicine, water purification and waste recycling, ...

The moon's thin atmosphere, called an exosphere, has been a puzzle to science for some time. Two main processes were thought to create this wispy gas envelope; tiny meteoroids hitting the surface and ...

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Earth’s Moon may have formed intact within five hours of a giant impact 4.5 billion years ago, as new modeling reveals the ...

NEW YORK CITY (PIX11) — As a nor’easter barrels towards the tri-state this weekend, a full moon could make the incoming tides rise even higher. The gravitational pull of the moon can draw the ocean ...

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The Moon is the first celestial object to catch our eyes. For some amateur astronomers, it quickly becomes a bother, its light obscuring the “faint fuzzies” we try to catch in our telescopes. Or, like ...

Impact simulations could change how researchers understand moon formation and may help constrain the timing of the event.

A treaty from the 1960s declared that nobody can own outer space. Half a century later, billionaires and superpowers see ...