The moon
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Hydrogen in lunar samples reveals water could have been delivered by asteroids crashing into the moon’s vast magma ocean billions of years ago
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The Last Man on the Moon is a documentary that tells Eugene Cernan’s story
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Enhanced images from Nasa’s first lunar probes star in a new exhibition celebrating five decades of planetary photography
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Newly released National Archive files reveal late PM failed to declare diamond and emerald gifts and how the US president prepared for a cold war arms summit
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The Yutu rover, part of the Chang’e-3 unmanned lunar mission, has identified a type of basalt unlike anything collected by previous Soviet or US missions
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Kevin Fong, who is giving this year’s Royal Institution Christmas Lectures on long-distance space travel, says its obstacles will be overcome
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After multiple seasons as a natural history guide and backcountry patrol ranger for the US Forest Service, Joe Whittle has come to the conclusion that to fully experience wilderness, one must spend time in it alone at night
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Indian startup Team Indus is one of just 16 remaining teams racing to the moon for a $20m prize
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Did you know Venus spins in the opposite direction to all the other planets in our solar system and there are thought to be trillions of diamonds on Uranus? Space experts Dr Dominic Walliman and Ben Newman tell all – with the help of Professor Astro Cat
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Nasa’s Cassini spacecraft captures images of Saturn moon’s underground ocean
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We speak to Frank De Winne, head of the European Astronaut Centre
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Six women will spend eight days in mock spacecraft simulating flight conditions performing tasks to assess their suitability
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After the Apollo missions, Richard Nixon donated 270 moon rocks to the world. Now, only 180 are accounted for – the rest are missing. Annabel Elgar has trooped all over the world to track down the remaining rocks
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Letters: David Miliband and the banana; Ed Miliband and the bacon sandwich; and now Jeremy Corbyn and his marrow
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Sunday’s blood moon did not bring on the last days but the termination of existence could come as early as 7 October if these seers are to be believed
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Swooping birds are under threat from wind turbines. Clean energy is good for us, bad for them
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A rare astronomical event – in which a lunar eclipse combines with the closest full moon of the year – caused the moon to appear to redden in the night sky Sunday
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What is a ‘blood moon’? Why is it red? Key questions answered about the latest lunar phenomenon
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Overlapping lunar eclipse and supermoon have some religious leaders warning of a major turning point on Earth, though the details vary
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