Moon
Skeleton Crew gets LADEE in Orbit, Checked Out and Fires Revolutionary Laser During Gov’t Shutdown
NASA’s new LADEE spacecraft successfully entered lunar orbit, is operating beautifully and has begun shooting its radical laser communications experiment…
This is the Moon, the Whole Moon and Nothing But the Moon
Take a look around the Moon... no, really, take a good look AROUND the Moon! This is a fantastic animation…
How the Moon Would Look if it Were at the Same Distance as the Space Station
This is completely impossible, but fun just the same. How would the Moon look from Earth if it orbited at…
To The Moon! Crowdfunded Solar Sail Shoots For Lunar Launch
It's a tiny satellite with ambitious goals: to zip all the way from the Earth to the Moon using a…
This Week’s Penumbral Lunar Eclipse and the Astronomy of Columbus
You can always count on an eclipse to get you out of a delicate situation. Today is Columbus Day in…
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Jupiter-bound Juno Probe Back in Full Operation After Earth Flyby Glitch
Juno swoops over Argentina This reconstructed day side image of Earth is one of the 1st snapshots transmitted back home…
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NASA’s Juno probe Gets Gravity Speed Boost during Earth Flyby But Enters ‘Safe Mode’
Developing story - NASA’s Juno-bound Jupiter orbiter successfully blazed past Earth this afternoon (Oct. 9) and gained its huge and…
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Juno Careening to Earth for Critical Flyby Boost and Cool Movie Making on Oct. 9 – Watch SLOOH Live
Trajectory Map of Juno’s Earth Flyby on Oct. 9, 2013 The Earth gravity assist is required to accelerate Juno’s arrival…
A Fine Pair of Lunar Occultations for North America This Weekend
Heads up, North American residents: our Moon is about to blot out two naked eye stars on Friday and Saturday…
Oct. 7, 1959 – Our First Look at the Far Side of the Moon
For millennia, human eyes have seen only one face of the moon. Put a dude from the Iron Age in…