Moon
Wonderful Ice Halos
[/caption] Have you ever seen a large ghostly disc around the Moon on a cool, calm, hazy night? If so,…
A Blood-Red Moon
[/caption] Photographer Joseph Brimacombe created this stunning image of a ruddy Moon made during the total lunar eclipse of December…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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.…