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The process of building landing pads, dwellings and roads on the moon will probably look different than a normal construction site on Earth. Excavation robots, for one, should be lightweight but capable of digging in low gravity. Large-scale construction systems can be hygienic and equipped to work without the help …

The new measurements show that the level of radiation on the moon is two to three times higher than the International Space Station. The measurements were taken by an instrument on China’s Chang-4 lunar lander. The spacecraft came down from the far side of the moon in January 2019. German …

Astronomers using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope have achieved the status of a supernova, a fast, fading celebrity of star extinction. Hubble snapshots have been collected in a movie about the explosion of the Titanic stars that disappeared into oblivion in a spiral galaxy NGC 2525, 70 million light-years away. S.N. …

SpaceX has shared this beautiful view of the Falcon 9 that will take the Space Force’s GPS satellite into orbit. SpaceX SpaceX left the scheduled launch of the U.S. military GPS satellite on Friday night with about two seconds left in the countdown clock. The launch was scheduled for a …

That’s one of the most surprising facts about voting in the United States: when popular vote chooses members of Congress, mayors, governors, state legislators, and even more obscure local officials, it doesn’t determine the highest ranking of the presidential winner. In the ground. That important decision ultimately comes down to …