Moon Daily
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Scientists have developed a method that could map water ice hundreds of metres beneath the Moon without extensive drilling—by measuring how moonquakes travel through the ground. Laboratory tests and simulations suggest ice-rich soil carries seismic waves two to three times faster than dry lunar regolith, while the current model extends to depths of about 800 metres.
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China's water-hunting Moon mission was hours from launch on Sunday when the countdown stopped — the next window may not come until 2027
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China built Chang’e‑7 to place a rover and hopping probe near the Moon’s south pole, probably close to Shackleton Crater, where the hopper would venture from sunlight into a permanently shadowed cold trap and search for ice that may have survived since long before animals appeared on Earth.
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In January 1946, eleven years before Sputnik, a US Army radio crew in New Jersey bounced a signal off the Moon and heard it come back 2.5 seconds later, and that echo was the first time anything humans made had touched another world
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NASA scientists found the Moon's 18.6-year wobble will amplify ordinary high tides on U.S. coastlines starting in the mid-2030s — meaning some streets could start flooding on calm, sunny days for no visible reason
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The treaty that governs the Moon was written in 1967, bans nations from owning it, and created no court or police force to enforce the rule — and 70 countries are now helping write the practical rules for what happens when humans return.
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Scientists led by UCLA found that permanently shaded parts of pits on the Moon stay near a constant 17°C while the exposed surface swings between 127°C and −173°C — meaning humanity's first permanent lunar address may be underground.
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A SpaceX rocket stage launched in January 2025 drifted for more than 18 months before crashing into the Moon at 8,700 km/h, carving a crater tens of metres wide — while newer lunar launches are sending spent stages safely onward into orbit around the Sun instead.
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The Moon's south pole can spend days in darkness, temperatures can plunge below −200°C, and unprotected electronics may not survive — Northrop Grumman is repurposing hardware built for NASA's shelved Gateway station to test how lunar systems cope before astronauts are targeted to land in 2028.
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The first animals to circle the Moon weren't astronauts—they were two Central Asian steppe tortoises aboard the Soviet Zond 5, which beat Apollo 8 by three months in 1968. They returned alive after the week-long journey, having lost only about 10% of their body weight.
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The far side of the Moon isn't dark—it receives just as much sunlight over time as the side facing Earth. Yet humanity had never seen it until the Soviet Luna 3 probe photographed it in October 1959, less than 56 years after the Wright brothers' first powered flight.
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When Luna 2 struck the Moon in September 1959, its instruments had found no detectable lunar magnetic field or radiation belts, while two explosive spheres were meant to scatter 144 steel Soviet pennants across the impact site
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The tides are slowly stealing rotational energy from Earth and giving it to the Moon, lengthening our days while pushing the Moon about 3.8 centimetres farther away each year — a transaction scientists can measure with lasers left by Apollo astronauts.
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Earth's Moon is unusually large compared with the planet it orbits, and the leading explanation begins with catastrophe: another world roughly the size of Mars slammed into the young Earth and blasted material into orbit.
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