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Theia: The Greek Goddess of Light, the Sun, the Moon & Wisdom

A lesser-known deity

China discovers strange glass beads on moon that may contain billions of tons of water

The tiny glass spherules, collected in lunar soil samples and brought to Earth by China's Chang'e-5 mission in December 2020

Skyscraper-size asteroid will get closer to Earth than the moon on Saturday

The asteroid three times the size of the one that blew out windows in Chelyabinsk, Russia in 2013 will zip by Earth at half the distance of the moon on Saturday (March 25)

Astronomers discover “deep structure” under Moon’s largest crater

"Imagine taking a pile of metal five times larger than the Big Island of Hawaii and burying it underground"

NASA’s “Mega Moon Rocket” aced first flight & is ready for crewed Artemis II launch

The launch in November went off (mostly) without a hitch, as did the 25-day mission undertaken by an uncrewed Orion capsule

An Asteroid just passed a few thousand kilometres from Earth

The distance is just slightly farther than the distance between Perth and Sydney

Webb telescope turns up baffling views of the early universe

New results from the James Webb Space Telescope challenge prevailing models of the early universe.

Last surviving Apollo 7 astronaut Walter Cunningham dies at 90

His Apollo 7 mission paved the way for the moon landing by Apollo 11 less than a year later

NASA’s Orion capsule set for splashdown on Earth after moon mission

If successful, the craft will take humans around the moon for its next mission, slated for 2024

NASA’s Orion sends back haunting new views of the moon’s tortured surface

Orion performed its closest approach to the Moon, coming to within 80 miles (130 kilometers) of the lunar surface

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