Moon

NASA Alters 1st Orion/SLS Flight – Bold Upgrade to Deep Space Asteroid Harbinger Planned

NASA Orion spacecraft blasts off atop 1st Space Launch System rocket in 2017 - attached to European provided service module…

12 years ago

New Desktop Image Alert: The Moon Over Earth

If you're like me, you don't change your computer's desktop background nearly often enough... especially not considering all the fantastic…

12 years ago

How Many Moons Does Earth Have?

Look up into the night sky and count the moons. You can see only one moon, "the" Moon. But does…

12 years ago

No, This Image Was Not Taken from the Space Station, But it Sure Looks Like It

I love those images taken from the International Space Station that show the Moon rising or setting above Earth's limb,…

12 years ago

Astrophoto: Houston Super Moonrise

While we recently posted a huge batch of images from the recent "Super Moon," this new image from Sergio Garcia…

12 years ago

‘Super Moon’ Images from Around the World, June 2013

The full Moon of June 23, 2013 was the largest Moon of the year. This so-called “Super Moon” was at…

12 years ago

Astrophoto: Fireworks and the Quarter Moon

This lovely image of the Moon with fireworks exploding nearby in the sky was taken by astrophotgrapher Giuseppe Petricca over…

12 years ago

Earth-Passing Asteroid is “An Entirely New Beast”

On the last day of May 2013 asteroid 1998 QE2 passed relatively closely by our planet, coming within 6 million kilometers...…

12 years ago

Plastic Protection Against Cosmic Rays?

It could work, say researchers from the University of New Hampshire and the Southwest Research Institute. One of the inherent dangers…

12 years ago

Bottoms Up! It’s a Year of Lunar Libration From Down Under

Do you live in the southern hemisphere? Are you tired of all those views of the Moon that favor celestial…

12 years ago