Full moon in Tromsø, Norway. Credit: Maja Sojtaric High tides may even counter the potential threat of submarine methane release from the warming Arctic. It…
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Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center/SDO/Joy Ng On January 13, 2021, NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory, or SDO, experienced its first lunar transit of the year…
NASA’s astromaterials sample collections, which include a library of Apollo lunar and Antarctic meteorite samples, are now offered online through a new virtual exploration tool…
Illustration of an Artemis astronaut on the Moon. Credit: NASA Sending the first Artemis mission to the Moon in preparation for human missions, landing a…
Moon phases. The Next Full Moon is the Wolf Moon, Ice Moon, Cold Moon, the Moon after Yule, the Long Night Moon, the Datta Jayanti…
This illustration shows how a lunar dynamo might generate a magnetic field. Credit: Hernán Cañellas, courtesy of Ben Weiss Simulations rule out plasmas caused by…
Lunar Roving Vehicle. Credit: NASA This week in 1972 (specifically, December 11, 1972), Apollo 17 landed on the lunar surface and became the third and…
Since time immemorial, people have gazed in wonder at the Moon. Its gentle light suggests romance, its strong embrace powers the tides and it is…
The waxing Moon rises over the Wasatch Mountains near Salt Lake City. Credit: NASA/Bill Dunford The next full Moon is the Cold Moon, Frost Moon,…
Taken by NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, this image of the moon is part of the collection of the highest resolution, near-global topographic maps of the…
The first prize selection, NASAGANTRY2020 ALLGO CS used a tripod structure on wheels. Credit: GrabCad/Christie S. NASA has selected five 3D model submissions to the…
[embedded content] Lunar exploration relies on the extensive expertise that is on hand across ESA. As a new lunar economy emerges, it will create new…
Scanning electron microscope image of the new mineral, Donwilhelmsite, in the lunar meteorite Oued Awlitis 001. Credit: © Museum für Naturkunde Berlin, Ansgar Greshake Donwilhelmsite…
Depiction of the planet Mars and its retinue of Trojans circling around the L4 and L5 Lagrange points. The dashed curve traces the planet’s orbit.…
Credit: Nokia 4G is coming to the Moon, to help support future international exploration efforts. To check the feasibility of this vision, the ESA-VSC High…
Peaks at the center of the moon’s Tycho Crater. Credit: NASA Goddard/Arizona State University Tiny Moon Shadows May Harbor Hidden Stores of Ice Hidden pockets…
This illustration highlights the Moon’s Clavius Crater with an illustration depicting water trapped in the lunar soil there, along with an image of NASA’s Stratospheric…
NASA will announce an exciting new discovery about the Moon from the Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA) at a media teleconference at 12 p.m.…
Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center/SDO/Joy Ng On October 16, 2020, the Moon photobombed NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory’s view of the Sun. This apparent crossing…
NASA has selected Intuitive Machines to deliver a drill combined with a mass spectrometer to the Moon. Credit: NASA NASA has awarded Intuitive Machines of…