On October 4, 1957, the USSR launched Sputnik I, the first artificial satellite in history, into orbit. That program would continue the following month with Sputnik II, which also carried the first living being to travel into space (the dog Laika). The success put the Soviets ahead in the space race and dealt a major […]
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Water and Life Arrived on Earth After the Formation of the Moon
A team of researchers led by Katherine Bermingham from Rutgers University in New Brunswick has discovered that water did not arrive on Earth at such an early stage of its formation as previously assumed. This finding has fundamental implications for determining when and how life could have originated on our planet. The study results, published […]
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The Moon Is Much Older Than We Thought, and Its Crust Has Melted Several Times
The Moon, our natural satellite, has witnessed impressive geological events since its formation. According to a recent study published in the journal Nature by an international team of researchers from the University of California, Santa Cruz, the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research, and the Collège de France, the Moon experienced volcanic activity so […]
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How the Bishop of the Diocese of Orlando Became the Bishop of the Moon
The year 2019 marked the 50th anniversary of Man’s landing on the Moon. It was on July 21, 1969, when Commander Neil Armstrong stepped onto the surface where the Eagle, the lunar module of the Apollo XI mission, had landed six hours earlier. He was then followed by Buzz Aldrin while Michael Collins stayed behind […]
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Over the last 700 million years, the distance between the Earth and the Moon has increased by 20,000 kilometers, and the days have lengthened by 2.2 hours
A team of scientists from Chengdu University, led by academic Wang Chengshan, has published a study in the renowned journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), the result of an international collaboration involving experts from institutions such as the Paris Observatory, the Leibniz Institute for Applied Geophysics in Germany, and Trinity College in […]
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Scientists Discover Accessible Tunnel Beneath the Moon’s Surface
An international team of researchers led by the University of Trento has made a landmark discovery. For the first time, they have confirmed the existence of a tunnel beneath the lunar surface, potentially a hollowed-out lava tube. The study has been published in the esteemed scientific journal Nature Astronomy. These structures had been hypothesized for […]
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Moon has More Water than Previously Thought, According to a Study of the Lunar Crust
New research is revealing that the Moon may have had more water in its early history than scientists previously believed. A study published in the journal Nature Astronomy shows that the Moon’s primitive crust, which makes up its surface, was significantly enriched in water over 4 billion years ago. This finding goes against earlier theories […]
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Two Tortoises were the First Living Beings to complete a Full Orbit around the Moon
In September 1968, the former Soviet Union launched the Zond 5 mission, a milestone in space exploration that marked not only the first time a spacecraft orbited the Moon in a circumlunar trajectory and returned to Earth but also the first time living beings did so. Onboard the spacecraft were two tortoises, becoming the first […]
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Hydrogen detected in lunar rocks would allow astronauts to obtain water on the Moon
Scientists at the United States Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) have made an exciting discovery on the Moon. They found hydrogen in samples of Moon rocks and dirt brought back to Earth by NASA’s Apollo missions. This hydrogen was from the solar wind blowing onto the lunar surface. Finding hydrogen on the Moon is big news […]
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Eugene Shoemaker, the only person whose remains rest on the Moon
Scattering the ashes of a deceased loved one into the air or throwing them into the water is a beautiful way to say goodbye and pay a posthumous tribute to him or her. However, for some time now, this has been restricted in some countries by the authorities due to the fact that some uncivilized […]
