Major volcanic eruptions detected on moon’s far side

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Volcanoes erupted here far more recently,

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BBC Science Focus Magazine

10 December, 2024

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Get to know lunar rays

The worst time to look at the Moon is when it’s full, right? Not necessarily. It’s true that at full Moon, sunlight hits the surface head-on, flattening the appearance of its rugged landscape of deep

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Astronomy from the far side

Astronomers love a challenge. They place their observatories on the highest mountains, in the driest deserts, on the coldest ice shelves, beneath the deepest oceans, in orbit around Earth and the Sun,

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Dozens of mysterious blobs discovered inside mars may be ‘failed planets’

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A ‘quasi-moon’ discovered in earth orbit may have been hiding for decades

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First contact seven missions that gave us our first real look at alien worlds

This October marks 50 years since a heavily shielded spacecraft, the Soviet Union’s Venera 9, parachuted into the atmosphere of Venus. Then, having landed, it did something extraordinary: it beamed ba