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Researchers from the Purple Mountain Observatory in China released LTE440, short for Lunar Time Ephemeris, in a recently ...

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In 1968, just a year before the historic Apollo 11 Moon landing, NASA scientists discovered something that could have sent astronauts Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins plunging to their ...

On the Moon, taking a simple step could quietly damage your body. With weaker gravity, your muscles do less work, your bones carry less weight and, over time, both start to fade. That problem does not ...

Reed Anway · On Dec. 8, 2025, the Purple Mountain Observatory in Nanjing, China published a paper in Astronomy and Astrophysics about the Lunar Time Ephemeris, or simply the LTE400, a software which ...