Here’s when to see this weekend’s complete lunar eclipse of the blood moon. During a complete lunar eclipse, the Earth travels between the sun and the full moon, obscuring the moon’s surface from view. Due to the large shadow created ...
The Moon that we see in the night sky every night is also the fifth-largest natural satellite in the whole Solar System. There are many other moons out there. Saturn has the most of them: 82 discovered so far. Along ...
Chinese scientists recently reported in the journal Joule that the lunar soil possesses active molecules capable of converting carbon dioxide into oxygen and energy. To help with human explorations of the moon and beyond, they’re now looking into lunar assets. ...
In anticipation of an increase in lunar activity in the next several years, Canada is proposing legislation to criminalize crimes undertaken on the Moon. Since NASA ended the Apollo program in 1975, other missions to the Moon have taken precedence ...
On the Moon, there exist molecules of water and ice, but how did these materials get up there? There’s a good chance that part of the water on the moon came from asteroids and comets colliding, but recent research reveals ...
Since the dawn of time, humans wanted to travel among the stars and the depths of the heavens. While technology allowed the human race to explore a very tiny part of space, astronomers might need to apply a different recipe. ...
An asteroid impact 4.3 billion years ago caused havoc in the moon’s mantle, explaining why one side of the moon has more craters than the other. A recent study supports this theory. Per the International Astronomical Union, the moon has ...
There is a stark contrast between the Moon’s aspect that we see from Earth and the one it conceals from us. The lunar mare, the pitch-black leftovers of previous lava streams, dominates the nearside. Large-scale mare characteristics are absent on ...
A space internet project in its early stages has recently secured $650,000 in initial money to work on research and technical evaluations in order to link the Earth, the moon, and possibly Mars with high-speed internet access. In a press ...
If you think that going to the Moon is like a walk in the park, please keep in mind that no astronaut has been there since 1972. It’s obvious that space agencies always need some fancy new toys to maneuver ...