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The new film is a down-to-Earth portrayal of astronaut Neil Armstrong and our complex relationship with the Moon.
The moon is our closest neighbour and our best hope for building capacity to explore space.
Today many Americans see universities negatively. But, as the dean of USC Dornsife argues, academia has a unique capacity to solve society’s problems. Yes, astrophysicists can help law enforcement.
Often eclipsed by Apollo 11, the final manned moonshot left far more than bootprints in the dust. In these troubling times, it also left us with a lasting message of hope.
Letters from would-be girl astronauts in the 1960s tell part of the complicated story of sexism – in both NASA and the US at large – at the dawn of the space age.
The story of how water got inside the moon could also help us understand the origin of water on Earth.
The Last Man on the Moon is much more than a biographical documentary – it is a gripping account of human endeavour.
NASA once had 400,000 people working on space exploration. We should battle climate change in the same way.
A crashing piece of space junk could be a a good fortune for researchers, despite falling on Friday the 13th.
To date, all human economic activity has depended on the material and energy resources of a single planet; understandably, perhaps. It is conceivable though that future advances in space exploration could…
Sunday marks the 45th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing on July 20, 1969, after multiple Apollo lunar missions unfolded through the 1960s in front of an awestruck global audience. But many wondered…
It seems like science fiction that 44 years ago Apollo 11 astronauts Armstrong and Aldrin traveled nearly a quarter of a million miles to walk on the surface of the Moon. When the crew of Apollo 17 returned…
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