Colorized screenshots of the exact shapes of moon dust collected during the Apollo 11 mission. NIST researchers and collaborators developed a method of measuring these…
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Eugene Cernan on the Moon, December 13, 1972, during the Apollo 17 mission, the last manned flight to the Earth’s natural satellite. Credit: NASA The…
A perigee full moon, or supermoon, is seen during a total lunar eclipse on Sunday, September 27, 2015, in Washington, DC. The combination of a…
An aircraft taking off in front of a supermoon as it rises in 2017. Credit: NASA/Bill Ingalls Capturing the Moon with a camera is one…
A red blood moon is caused by sunlight passing through the Earth’s atmosphere. Credit: U.S. Navy/Joshua Valcarcel/WikimediaCommons The first lunar eclipse of 2021 is going…
As part of the Artemis program, NASA is planning to send its first mobile robot to the Moon in late 2023 in search of ice and other…
A constellation of satellites around the Moon. Credit: ESA A bold proposal to create a commercially viable constellation of lunar satellites has taken a step…
From left to right, students Austin Pritts, Taia Saurer, and Amanda Gutierrez have been named the winners of the Moon Pod Essay Contest for their…
The massive Space Launch Systems (SLS) rocket that will launch the first crewless test flight of the Orion spacecraft is being integrated at the Vehicle…
This illustration depicts a conceptual Lunar Crater Radio Telescope on the Moon’s far side. The early-stage concept is being studied under grant funding from the…
View of the southern, midlatitude far side of the moon showing the SPA basin outlined in white and the Schrödinger basin outlined in yellow (modified…
Crewmembers spend days to months in the HI-SEAS Mars/moon habitat atop Mauna Loa. Credit: HI-SEAS Imagine trying to pick up a pebble or scrape microbes…
Women temporarily synchronize their menstrual cycles with the luminance and gravimetric cycles of the Moon. An analysis of long-term menstrual cycle records kept by 22…
This April full moon is known as the pink moon because it heralds the arrival of spring flowers. A “super full moon” is coming on…
NASA’s Gateway Lunar Outpost. Credit: NASA NASA’s Gateway lunar outpost will address one of the biggest concerns for space travel beyond Earth’s orbit by measuring…
Credit: NASA/Bill Dunford The Next Full Moon is the Pink Moon, the Sprouting Grass Moon, the Egg Moon, the Fish Moon, the Paschal Moon (for…
Illustration of a conceptual radio telescope within a crater on the Moon. The early-stage concept is being studied under grant funding from the NASA Innovative…
[embedded content] At the Moon’s North and South Poles, the Sun is never more than 1.5° above or below the horizon. The resulting pattern of…
The blog “Ladyplanet. Natürlich Frau sein” is quite certain: “Our cycle is linked to that of the moon. The most obvious connection is the length…
The Moon, or supermoon, is seen as it rises behind the U.S. Capitol, Monday, March 9, 2020, in Washington, DC. A supermoon occurs when the…