Moon

Get Your Own Unprecedented 3-D View of the Moon

[/caption] Love 3-D images? Interested in maps? Want to explore the Moon? Then a new Kickstarter project may be just…

13 years ago

Lunar Crater Reveals Many Secrets, Including a Not-So-Young Age

[/caption] The Moon is covered with craters of various shapes and sizes, and in various states of preservation. Scientists have…

13 years ago

China Unveils High Resolution Global Moon Map

[/caption] Chinese scientists have assembled the highest resolution map ever created of the entire Moon and unveiled a series of…

13 years ago

A Bouncing Moon Boulder

[/caption] One solitary boulder on the Moon apparently decided to take a little journey. The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera captured…

13 years ago

Russia Sets Its Sights on the Moon for 2020

[/caption] Looks like Republican Presidential hopeful Newt Gingrich might have some competition if he wants to be the first to…

13 years ago

GRAIL Sends Back First Video of the Moon’s Far Side

A first look from GRAIL, showing the lunar far side! A camera aboard ‘Ebb’ -- one of NASA's twin Gravity…

13 years ago

New Insights into the Moon’s Mysterious Magnetic Field

Ever since the Apollo era, scientist have known that the Moon had some kind of magnetic field in the past,…

13 years ago

CosmoQuest: Taking Citizen Science to the Next Level

"X" marks the spot for a new place for Citizen Science on the web. It’s called CosmoQuest and the collaborators…

13 years ago

Mystery Moon Flashes Caused by Meteorite Impacts

[/caption] For hundreds of years, people have seen tiny flashes of light on the surface of the Moon. Very brief,…

13 years ago

Op-Ed: Lunar Twitter — Republicans Debate Manned Moon Base

[/caption] Editor’s note – Bruce Dorminey, science journalist and author of Distant Wanderers: The search for Planets beyond the Solar…

13 years ago