Moon

Wonderful Ice Halos

[/caption] Have you ever seen a large ghostly disc around the Moon on a cool, calm, hazy night? If so,…

12 years ago

The Thirty-Ninth Anniversary of the Last Moonwalk

[/caption] On December 13, 1972, Apollo 17 Commander Eugene A. Cernan and Lunar Module Pilot (LMP) Harrison H. “Jack” Schmitt…

12 years ago

A Blood-Red Moon

[/caption] Photographer Joseph Brimacombe created this stunning image of a ruddy Moon made during the total lunar eclipse of December…

12 years ago

Enceladus Gives Cassini Some Radar Love

[/caption] Cassini's done it again! Soaring over Saturn's moon Enceladus back on November 6, the spacecraft obtained the highest-resolution images…

12 years ago

Life on Alien Planets May Not Require a Large Moon After All

[/caption] Ever since a study conducted back in 1993, it has been proposed that in order for a planet to…

12 years ago

Consolation Prize for Phobos-Grunt? Experts Consider Possibilities for Sending Spacecraft to Moon or Asteroid

[/caption] Editor’s note: Dr. David Warmflash, principal science lead for the US team from the LIFE experiment on board the…

12 years ago

Do-It-Yourself Guide to Measuring the Moon’s Distance

[/caption] When the distance from the Earth to the Moon comes up, the common figure thrown around is 402,336 km…

12 years ago

The Moon as You’ve Never Seen It Before

[/caption] You’re looking at a brand new view of the lunar farside, as never seen before. The team from the…

12 years ago

Europa’s Hidden Great Lakes May Harbor Life

[/caption] New research on Jupiter's ice-covered moon Europa indicates the presence of a subsurface lake buried beneath frozen mounds of…

12 years ago

How the Moon Became Magnetized

[/caption] It's been a mystery ever since the Apollo astronauts brought back samples of lunar rocks in the early 1970s.…

12 years ago