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Every year, the Moon slips about 2.5 centimeters farther from Earth, and in exchange it's been quietly stretching our days longer for billions of years. It also acts as a steadying weight on Earth's tilted axis. Without it, days would stay short and seasons would swing wildly. The familiar disk in our night sky is secretly running the clock and the climate.
Add a second full moon to the sky and nights stop getting dark. The tides from both moons stack up and start reaching into coastal towns. And two moons can't share an orbit peacefully for long — they may eventually collide and leave Earth with rings like Saturn's. It's a story about just how finely balanced our one, slowly departing Moon really is.
Before humans return to the Moon, NASA is sending 17 uncrewed landers carrying more than 60 instruments — a roughly $2.6 billion reconnaissance effort. Why send machines dozens of times before people go even once? SORABUMI unpacks the long robotic run-up to a lunar base, from hunting for ice to proving landing accuracy to wiring up power and communications.
In July 2026, China's Tianwen-2 probe will rendezvous with Kamo'oalewa — a 40–100 m rock that follows Earth around the Sun. Could it be a fragment blasted off the lunar surface, or just a regular space rock that happened to wander close? SORABUMI breaks it down.
For the first time in half a century, people flew to the vicinity of the Moon. Robots could have taken the same photos. So why send a crew? Artemis II's 10-day mission and its 7-hour lunar observation window force that question into sharp focus.
The near side of the Moon is draped in dark volcanic plains, while the far side is a battered mess of craters. That stark asymmetry traces directly back to the Moon's violent birth. Here's what Artemis II astronauts saw when they became the first humans in over 50 years to lay eyes on it.