Moon

Astrophotos: Occultation of Saturn

Observers in Australia and New Zealand had a special treat this week: watching Saturn disappear behind the Moon during an…

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Where did Mars' moons Phobos and Deimos come from? How did they end up in orbit around Mars? This cool…

11 years ago

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Funny thing. Skywatchers are often just as excited to watch a celestial object disappear as we are to see it make an…

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That’s Earth. That’s us. Way off in the distance as a fairly small, blue and swirly white sphere. This is…

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Striking a Buzz Lightyear-like pose above is the winning design for NASA's Z-2 spacesuit prototype. The version, called "technology", was…

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Fly me -- or my package -- to the Moon? "Anything is possible!" said astrophotographer Sebastien Lebrigand, via email to…

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Sunrise over the surface of the moon: a series of star tracker images taken by LADEE Saturday, April 12. The…

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The space community lost a colossus of the of the Apollo era last week, when John Houbolt passed away last…

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NASA's LADEE lunar orbiting dust and atmosphere explorer probe has bitten the dust and crashed into the Moon’s surface exactly…

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The keys to NASA’s historic launch Pad 39A that propelled humanity’s first man to walk on the Moon - Neil…

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