{"id":802739,"date":"2026-06-19T18:06:36","date_gmt":"2026-06-19T23:06:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=802739"},"modified":"2026-06-19T18:06:36","modified_gmt":"2026-06-19T23:06:36","slug":"space-news-tiny-moon-explorers-a-debate-about-the-expanding-universe-and-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=802739","title":{"rendered":"Space news: Tiny moon explorers, a debate about the expanding universe, and more."},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<p>In this space news roundup, Berly McCoy and Regina Barber of NPR&#8217;s Short Wave talk about tiny autonomous &#8220;transformers&#8221; that can explore the moon, a debate about the expanding universe, and more.<\/p>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2026\/06\/19\/nx-s1-5856296\/space-news-tiny-moon-explorers-a-debate-about-the-expanding-universe-and-more?rand=771664\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this space news roundup, Berly McCoy and Regina Barber of NPR&#8217;s Short Wave talk about tiny autonomous &#8220;transformers&#8221; that can explore the moon, a debate about the expanding universe,&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":800048,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-802739","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-npr"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/802739","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=802739"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/802739\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/800048"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=802739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=802739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=802739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}