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Space & Missions
Launches, spacecraft, satellites, exploration programs and the engineering that carries people and instruments beyond Earth.
The Moon is still shrinking as its interior cools, creating powerful moonquakes…
Carl Sagan was denied tenure at Harvard in the late 1960s, reportedly for being too…
The moon is drifting away from Earth by about 3.8 centimetres a year
Apollo 12 was struck by lightning twice within a minute of launch and survived because…
Titan holds hundreds of times more liquid hydrocarbons than every known oil and gas…
On Titan the mountains are made of water
The sun is 27 million times heavier than the moon, yet its pull on our tides is only 46…
China’s Tianwen-2 spacecraft chased Earth’s tiny quasi-moon for 400 days and 1 billion…
NASA's Curiosity rover has been operating on Mars since August 2012
A single London to New York flight delivers roughly 37 microsieverts of cosmic radiation
