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See the moon shine with famous red star Antares in the southern sky on June 9
Antares is a red supergiant star located 400 light-years from Earth. The waxing gibbous moon will shine close to the red star ...
June 2025 full moon: It's been years since you've seen one that looks like this
June’s full moon, known as the strawberry moon, will rise on the evening of Tuesday, June 10. It will appear extraordinarily ...
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China's Tianwen 2 spacecraft sends home 1st photo as it heads for mysterious 'quasi-moon' asteroid
China has revealed the first image from its Tianwen 2 asteroid sample return mission, which is now more than 3 million ...
A Japanese lander crashed on the Moon after losing track of its location
A robotic lander developed by a Japanese company named ispace plummeted to the Moon's surface Thursday, destroying a small ...
Spacecraft set for a high-stakes lunar landing attempt this week took months to reach the moon. Here’s why
Japan-based company Ispace will attempt to safely land its Resilience spacecraft on the moon this week after the lunar lander ...
A private company wants to build a city on the moon. But it has to land a probe first
A private space exploration company based in Japan, ispace, wants to see people living on the moon by 2040. They have plans ...
Private lunar lander from Japan crashes into moon in failed mission
A private lunar lander from Japan has crashed into the moon. The Tokyo-based company ispace declared the mission a failure ...
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Two stunning conjunctions will light up the night sky this month. Here's how to see Mars and Mercury 'kiss' the moon
This month will usher in two separate conjunctions — one between the moon and a rarely-visible Mercury, and another between ...
June's Full Moon Brings Lucky Breakthroughs and 4 Zodiac Signs Are in for Drastic Shifts
June's full moon, aka the Strawberry Moon, rises on June 11 at 12:43 AM PT. Here's what the full moon in Sagittarius means ...
Resilience spacecraft likely crashed into the moon, Ispace confirms
Resilience, a spacecraft built by Japan-based company Ispace, crashed while attempting to touch down on the moon. If ...