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First private mission to the moon is launched on SpaceX rocket

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First private mission to the moon is launched on SpaceX rocket

The moon has only ever been visited by government superpowers, but a small Israeli non-profit called SpaceIL is about to change that with its lunar lander

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Neptune’s smallest moon keeps getting smashed up and resurrected again

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Neptune’s smallest moon keeps getting smashed up and resurrected again

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Apollo astronauts might have found a piece of Earth on the moon

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Apollo astronauts might have found a piece of Earth on the moon

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The moon’s violent birth may have given Earth the ingredients of life

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The moon’s violent birth may have given Earth the ingredients of life

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Moon craters reveal surprise rise in asteroid shrapnel pelting Earth

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Moon craters reveal surprise rise in asteroid shrapnel pelting Earth

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Crashing tidal waves may lurk beneath the surface of icy moons

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Crashing tidal waves may lurk beneath the surface of icy moons

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2018’s weirdest stories: Friendly horses, toddler robots and moonmoons

2018’s weirdest stories: Friendly horses, toddler robots and moonmoons

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Giant grooves on Mars’s moon Phobos may be caused by rolling boulders

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A mysterious picture of a moon behind the moon

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Earth may have a pair of 'ghost moons' made of dust trapped in orbit

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Let’s embrace the joy of moonmoons and more playful scientific terms

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Let’s embrace the joy of moonmoons and more playful scientific terms

Some say the astronomical term moonmoon makes light of a serious field of study, but it seems a shame to abandon it for po-faced alternatives

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Moons can have moons and they are called moonmoons

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Jupiter’s moon Europa may have a belt of 15-metre-tall ice spikes

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First known exomoon could be a baffling monster the size of Neptune

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Why a rake on the moon messed up our theories of life on Earth

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