Moon Photobombs NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory’s View of the Sun
On October 16, 2020, the Moon photobombed NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory’s view of the Sun. This apparent crossing in space, called a lunar transit, lasted…
On October 16, 2020, the Moon photobombed NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory’s view of the Sun. This apparent crossing in space, called a lunar transit, lasted…
NASA has awarded Intuitive Machines of Houston approximately $47 million to deliver a drill combined with a mass spectrometer to the Moon by December 2022…
Earth and Moon Once Shared a Magnetic Shield, Protecting Their Atmospheres Four-and-a-half billion years ago, Earth’s surface was a menacing, hot mess. Long before the…
When the first woman and next man land on the Moon in 2024, they will explore the permanently shadowed and extremely cold regions of the…
What are some skywatching highlights in October 2020? Not one, but two, full Moons; Mars at opposition; and finding the Andromeda galaxy. Highlights October is…
The process of building landing pads, habitats, and roads on the Moon will likely look different than the common construction site on Earth. Excavation robots,…
Earth could have lost anywhere between ten and 60 percent of its atmosphere in the collision that is thought to have formed the Moon. New…
Dragonfly is a NASA mission that delivers a rotorcraft to Saturn’s moon Titan to advance our search for the building blocks of life. While Dragonfly…
In the coming years and decades, various nations want to explore the moon, and plan to send astronauts there again for this purpose. But on…
While NASA is working aggressively to meet our near-term goal of landing the first woman and next man on the Moon by 2024, our Artemis…
NASA has issued another request to its 14 Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) partners to bid on flying a suite of payloads to the Moon….
To the surprise of many planetary scientists, the oxidized iron mineral hematite has been discovered at high latitudes on the Moon, according to a study…
NASA is reaching out to university students to help solve the problem of lunar dust as the agency plans for sustainable human exploration of the…
While our Moon is airless, research indicates the presence of hematite, a form of rust that normally requires oxygen and water. That has scientists puzzled….
What’s Up for September? The Moon with Mars and Venus, and a star with a planet…that wasn’t. On September 6th, you’ll find the Moon extremely…
A team led by the University of Colorado Boulder is pioneering a new solution to the problem of spring cleaning on the moon: Why not…
The Next Full Moon is the Corn, Fruit, Barley, and Hungry Ghost Moon; the end of Onam; the start of Pitri Paksha; Modhu Purnima; Binara…
Astronaut Doug “Wheels” Wheelock spent his NASA career expanding knowledge of living and working in space. His new mission is working to determine the best…