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Moon Daily
A lunar crater so fresh its bright ejecta still gleams after forming this spring
LRO images bracket McGetchin crater's formation to seven weeks in 2024, preserving bright ejecta, complex deposition and a seven-kilometre thermal disturbance.
Woman who bought Apollo 11 moon dust bag for $995 sold it for $1.8 million
European regulators order urgent checks on Airbus A380s after wing cracks found
Rare garnet discovered in Martian meteorite puzzles scientists about its origins
Mars warming plan could trigger extreme day-night temperature swings
Farmer's vegetable patch forces Japan's major airport to build around him for 50 years
Astronaut's famous moon golf shots were far shorter than his joke suggested
Astronaut dropped hammer and feather on the Moon to prove Galileo right
Schoolboys with a radio receiver exposed the Soviet Union's secret space launch site
Mars's deep interior is far hotter beneath the south than the north
US hydrogen bomb test knocked out power and satellites 900 miles away
