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the moon

TV Apollo 8

Space

First mission to the moon: The real lesson

Apollo 8 marked the start of humanity’s journey beyond Earth. But as a new book shows, space travel can also bring the focus back home

Culture

Mission control

Space

Go at throttle up: The secret world of NASA’s mission control

Culture

Flamsteed crater (bottom) with ring-like hint of another bigger impact

Space

Moon's hidden craters detected by gravity mapper

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Trinity nuclear bomb test

Space

Glass from nuclear test site shows the moon was born dry

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Oxygen ions sent from Earth have been spotted on the moon

Space

Oxygen ions sent from Earth have been spotted on the moon

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Apollo 17 lunar buggy

Space

Private moon mission plans to revisit Apollo 17 landing site

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Animation showing the before and after of an impact crater

Space

The moon has hundreds more craters than we thought

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The dark side of the moon

Space

Tiny lightning bolt explosions can vaporise the moon’s thin soil

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Roy Lichtenstein – Eclipse of the sun (1975)

Space

Solar eclipses: heaven-sent chance to mix art and science

Features

The Yutu rover on the surface of the moon

Space

China's Jade Rabbit moon rover dead after 31 months on surface

The probe, also known as Yutu, experienced difficulties early on in its mission, but went on to claim the record for longest operating rover on the moon

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Earth

Volcano in Chile dampened lunar eclipse's glory

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Space

Mars moons may have formed after collision with Pluto-like world

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Space

Moon’s lack of water down to ancient shift in its spin axis

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Space

NASA CubeSat missions will pave way for human space flight

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