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# space
According to a new study, Earth's collision with a Mars-sized protoplanet 4.5 billion years ago didn't just create the Moon. It also gave us our oceans and helped life get started.
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Scientists think they found a time capsule from Earth’s earliest days buried just under the Moon’s surface for the last 4.1 billion years.
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When not promising us cities on Triton in ten years, the media seems befuddled by and incredulous of the most conservative and realistic plans for space exploration.
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Are we looking at a repeat of the Space Race, this time against China?
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If we return to the Moon and decide to stay there, the Moon may offer us a few shortcuts in setting up a safe place to live.
# science
Can we recreate life on Earth after a mass extinction? And if we could, do we really want to?
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A new eye-catching proposal suggests that the Moon was spun off from Earth instead of being formed in the aftermath of a collision.
# astrobiology
The outer solar system isn't just toxic gas giants and ice. It's full of bizarre oceans with the promise of life and alien chemistry that we didn't think was possible even a few years ago.
# space
The Soviet Union wanted to detonate a nuclear warhead on the Moon as a show of force. But without an atmosphere and 238,900 miles away, what would that look like?