Turns out they’re in no rush to build a colony on the moon.

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Former Space Execs Endorse Romney

As Gingrich pitches an idea to occupy the moon.

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Mitt Pulls Ahead of Newt in Florida

Hundreds of moon rocks and other stuff from space have been lost, destroyed, stolen or remain unaccounted for, according to inspectors.

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NASA Tackles Problem of Missing Moon Rocks

She hangs there nightly, a yellow or white or spookily orange disk, the bringer of tides, the caster of romantic shadows. She waxes and wanes and sometimes she turns ruddy as the shadow of the Earth crosses her face. For all her beauty, though, our moon hides a lumpy, unflattering secret: She’s lopsided. Her backside is much thicker than her front. And no one knows why. Read full article > >

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NASA’s lunar probes will test theory of why one side of the moon is lopsided

Scientists hope to arrive at a better understanding of its structure and origins by mapping the gravitational field of the Moon.

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Two NASA Spacecraft Set to Orbit the Moon

Nasa’s Grail satellites prepare to go into orbit around the Moon to map its gravity in unprecedented detail, revealing its internal structure.

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Gravity twins set to orbit Moon

Oscar-winning visual effects artist Scott Farrar discusses his latest film Transformers 3: Dark of the Moon, and the secrets of his art form.

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VIDEO: The man transforming cinema

The US space agency (Nasa) has released the sharpest ever elevation map of the Moon.

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Sharpest ever Moon elevation map

The US space agency (Nasa) has released the sharpest ever elevation map of the Moon.

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Sharpest ever Moon elevation map

The biggest asteroid to cruise by Earth in 35 years will make its closest approach Tuesday at 6:28 p.m. Scientists say there is no danger. The 1,200-foot-long charcoal-black space rock, called 2005 YU55, will come no closer than 200,000 miles, just inside the orbit of the moon. It is too faint to see with the naked eye, but backyard astronomers can spy the asteroid with six-inch or larger telescopes as the nearly spherical rock zooms across the constellations Aquila and Pegasus. Read full article > >

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Rare asteroid will fly by Earth on Tuesday evening

An asteroid some 400m across is set to pass by the Earth, on a path closer to us than the Moon – though it poses no danger.

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Giant asteroid to pass near Earth

Passing closer than the moon.

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Huge Asteroid Will Brush Earth

Two spacecraft called Grail launch from Florida on a mission to map the Moon’s gravity in unprecedented detail.

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Moon twins to make gravity maps

Nasa has released new images of the Apollo landing sites on the moon, taken from an orbiting spacecraft.

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VIDEO: Photo ‘dispels moon landing doubt’

Remarkable new images of the Apollo landing sites on the Moon have just been released by Nasa.

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Moon landing sites shown in high definition