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Exomoons that run away from their planets could become 'ploonets'

4 July 2019

We haven’t found any moons around exoplanets, which may be because they are flung away and turn into “ploonets” - a fate that could one day befall our own moon

Sorry, but NASA probably isn't sending astronauts to the moon in 2024

3 April 2019

The Trump administration has set NASA an ambitious goal of returning to the moon, but the agency doesn't have enough money or the right spacecraft to achieve this

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Exomoons that run away from their planets could become 'ploonets'

Sorry, but NASA probably isn't sending astronauts to the moon in 2024

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