Chunk of Moon Rock? NASA Tracks Asteroid 2024 PT5 During Close Earth Flyby
NASA’s Goldstone Solar System Radar is closely tracking asteroid 2024 PT5 during its nearest approach to Earth, a distance ...
Why scientists are going to start creating artificial solar eclipses
Scientists with the European Space Agency will soon use satellites to create artificial solar eclipses so they can study the ...
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You don't look a day over 4.35 billion! Here's the moon's anti-aging secret
The Moon has long been the Earth's close companion, but researchers have struggled to understand exactly when the moon formed, because tiny crystals in the moon rocks brought home by astronauts ...
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The moon may be more than 100 million years older than previously thought, study finds
Francis Nimmo, the study’s lead author and a professor in the Earth & Planetary Sciences Department at the University of California, Santa Cruz ... all the clocks” in lunar rocks. “So the moon rocks ...
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Moon may be much older than thought because of 'remelting' surface
Scientists estimated the date of the collision by dating moon rock samples ... Professor Francis Nimmo from the University of California Santa Cruz and his colleagues argue the moon may be ...
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The Moon Might Be Much Older Than Previously Thought, New Study Confirms
a professor at the University of California, Santa Cruz, explained that this heating likely reset the lunar rocks' "clocks," obscuring the moon's true age. "The moon rocks don't reveal when the ...
China plans to wave its flag on the surface of the moon — literally
When American astronauts landed on the moon in 1969, one of their first tasks — after grabbing a handful of moon rocks in ...
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The moon may be more than 100 million years older than previously thought, study finds
Francis Nimmo, the study’s lead author and a professor in the Earth & Planetary Sciences Department at the University of California ... “So the moon rocks are not telling us when the moon ...
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New research suggests the Moon is much older than previously believed
However, researchers found crystalline inclusions in the Moon rock, called zircons ... a geologist at the University of California, Santa Cruz, according to Space.com. "But the Moon slowly ...
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Apollo 13 Prepares For Third Moon Landing
Following the historic year of 1969 that saw two successful Moon landings, 1970 opened on a more sober note. Ever-tightening ...