The agreement would be the latest effort to cultivate allies around NASA’s plan to put humans and space stations on the moon within the next decade, and comes as the civilian space agency plays a growing role in implementing American foreign policy.

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Think Veep meets The Office and Parks and Recreation.

Actor alleged singer wanted to 'sexualise' him ahead of their scene

The moon has seen a lot in its 4.5 million years of life, and a detailed new geologic map serves as testament.

Is it all moot because of the deadly virus infecting Australia and no I don’t mean the National party ahahaha

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Africa needs a digital transformation for faster economic growth and job creation. The World Bank estimates that reaching the African Union’s goal of universal and affordable internet coverage will increase GDP growth in Africa by 2 percentage points per year. Also, the probability of employment—regardless of education level—increases by 6.9 to 13.2 percent when fast…

RVs are sometimes great models of how one can get a lot of living into small spaces. The Kiravan takes it to a whole new level.

The official naming organization has approved the names to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 8 mission.

The so-called 'transient lunar phenomena' has been stumping scientists for years – but an explanation may be in the works.

Using a series of rotating LED lights, this work highlights the visually transformative powers of the Moon.

NASA has awarded $967 million to three space flight companies – Blue Origin, Dynetics and SpaceX – to build lunar landers that will be part of the Artemis programme to send humans to the moon by 2024

China just tested its biggest rocket yet, along with a new capsule designed to carry humans to its planned space station, the moon and beyond

The leading hypothesis for how the moon formed involves a collision between a Mars-sized object and Earth that would have boiled away elements like carbon, making its discovery on the moon a mystery

National grabs of lunar and celestial resources need to be resisted

The moon is an immensely powerful tool that we can all learn to work with. Here renowned moon mentor Kirsty Gallagher shows us how powerful living in tune with the moon can be…

Mila Kunis stuck to her trademark simple street style when she was glimpsed out and about in Los Angeles this Monday. The 36-year-old Family Guy voice star showed off her legs.

The Lunar-25 lander will be the first time Russia has launched a spacecraft to land on the surface of the Moon since 1976 - when Lunar-24 touched down.

JANE FRYER: Certainly it will be beautiful and awesome and, for those with binoculars and telescopes, there will be an awful lot to see.

NASA scientists have suggested using mushrooms to grow habitats on the lunar surface and Mars, which could even lead to more sustainable homes on Earth.

China successfully landed the first mission to the far side of the moon on January 4, 2019 and the lander and its rover Yutu-2 continue to send back data and images to Earth.

NASA released a stunning video that recreates the Apollo 13 crew's view of the moon before an explosion occurred on the ship that made them abort the mission and return to Earth.

NASA has opened applications for potential astronauts who want to travel to the Moon in 2024. Candidates need a master's degree in a STEM field like maths or computer science.

Researchers for the Polytechnic University of Cartagena, Spain, found the urea in urine could be mixed with lunar soil to create a flexible and sustainable 3D printed concrete.

NASA has released a detailed plan for an 'Artemis Base Camp' that will be home to first woman and next man on the moon in 2024, which will help the crew prepare for the journey to Mars.

Funding for the project has come from the NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts (NIAC) Programme, designed to support potentially game changing projects.

Nellie had been going 'crazy' for bubbles when the 'fluke' photo was taken in Romford, East London. NASA responded saying: 'That's one small boop for the pup, one giant boop for pupkind.'

A photographer has taken the world's clearest pictures of the moon's craters by combining multiple shots of the lunar line where light meets dark.

Data from NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) shows ridges with freshly exposed bedrock on the moon's surface, leading experts to believe the moon has an active tectonic system.

On stage, Bezos took the wraps off a massive model of what will be the firm's first lunar lander, dubbed Blue Moon. The event kicked off at 4 p.m. in Washington D.C, and was not live streamed.

Carbon emissions from the moon are making scientists question the theory that the dusty rock was formed in a collision between the Earth and 'wandering planet' Theia.

For AIDS prevention education to be successful, powerful gender-sensitive messages must replace the nebulous 'moral framework', argues Anita Anand.

The United States is so far the only country to have been able to send humans to the Moon.

The main ingredient in “lunar concrete” would be a powdery soil found on the moon’s surface known as lunar regolith.

Like every year, this year too on Thursday, 17 October 2019, women will observe the fast of Karwa Chauth to pray for their husband's long life, safety and happiness. This festival has a great significance in the life of Hindu married

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In this episode, Thiel fellow Rebecca Jolitz takes us on a tour of the NASA Ames Research Center, where she worked while attending UC Berkeley. The entire group also pays a visit to lunar transportation company Moon Express for lessons on space, technology, and how to turn the impossible into a reality.

'Mission Control: The Unsung Heroes of Apollo' is a documentary film about the team that built NASA's mission control and guided astronauts to the moon.

Jedediah Smith, VFX Supervisor for Method Studios, describes the painstaking process visual effects artists used to create the moon and lunar rover sequence in Ad Astra. From their innovative use of infrared cameras to their deep archival research to their extensive use of rotoscoping, the effects team employed an array of techniques to balance realism and accuracy.

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Take a look back at Morehead's role in NASA's accomplishments.

December's Starry Nights and Star Families programs feature "Moon Myths," with a sneak peek at the upcoming lunar eclipse.

How often do you get to meet someone who's flown to the Moon and back?

Sorry -- this Oct. 12 skywatching session is cancelled (the clouds won't go away!).

This week, we chat about how the Earth is sending oxygen to the moon, using a GPS data set to hunt for dark matter, and retrieving 80-million year old proteins from dinosaur bones, with Online News Editor David Grimm. And Philip Tetlock joins Alexa Billow to discuss improving our ability to make judgments about the future through forecasting competitions as part of a special section on prediction in this week’s issue of Science. Listen to previous podcasts. [Image: NASA; Music: Jeffrey Cook]

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