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Scientists discover water in glass spheres on the Moon – 03/28/2023 – Science

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Scientists have discovered a new, renewable source of water in Luain lunar samples collected by a Chinese mission, and suggest their potential use by “future explorers” of the satellite. The water was inside small glass spheres formed by violent collisions of space rocks with the lunar surface, says the study published on Monday (28) in …

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‘Oumuamua was a comet after all, study suggests – 03/24/2023 – Science

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Was it alien space junk? A wandering interstellar asteroid? Or a strange comet from another sun? Since 2017, when astronomers in Hawaii discovered an object crossing the solar system that they called Oumuamua (Hawaiian for “scout”), they discussed what it might be. Telescopes only saw a moving dot that was already heading back into the …

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Rocket launch fails and Japan orders destruction – 07/03/2023 – Science

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A second attempt to launch Japan’s state-of-the-art H3 rocket failed on Tuesday shortly after liftoff, when the Japanese space agency ordered self-destruction after determining the device would fail to complete the mission. The failure deals a blow to the Japanese space agency Jaxa, which has heralded the H3 as its great low-cost, flexible symbol. The …

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