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Moon is slowly moving away from Earth at a rate of 3.8 centimetres per year. This gradual drift affects Earth’s rotation and ...

How did it differ from the earth? What were the mascons, those mysterious subsurface objects, that perturbed the orbits of lunar satellites? Now, as NASA celebrates Apollo 11 with a series of events ...

A photo of Apollo 11. Commander Charles Conrad of Apollo 12 became the third person to walk on the moon. With his opportunity ... payload capacity to reach low orbit (311,152 pounds), and is ...

Named after a Norwegian ship that explored the Arctic and Antarctic regions at the turn of the 20th century, Fram2 will ...

Siberia has, since time immemorial, been a precious land sought after by major powers. The many Chinese dynasties – particularly the Han, Tang, Yuan and Qing dynasties – as well as the Mongol Empire ...

A new study has found that Apollo astronauts who reached the Moon die more often from heart disease than astronauts who never made it to space or who only reached low-earth orbit. WSJ's Monika Auger ...