GRAIL Completes Prime Mission, Now Preparing for Extended Operations
NASA’s GRAIL Mission, with twin probes named Ebb and Flow, has delivered over 99.99 percent of the data that was collected on the moon and…
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Hubble to Test Technique of Using the Moon as a Mirror
In an effort to test the technique of using the moon as a mirror, scientists will use Hubble to observe the transit of Venus across…
Saturn’s Moon Phoebe Has Planet-Like Qualities
More than 60 moons orbit Saturn and by combining data from NASA’s Cassini mission with modeling techniques, scientists have so far been able to identify…
A Closer Look at Titan’s Chemical Production
Two new papers published in the Astrophysical Journal describe the process of hydrocarbon creation on Saturn’s moon Titan and predicted how long Titan’s chemical factory…
Cassini Explores Titan’s Lake, Similarities to Etosha Salt Pan
Based on data from NASA’s Cassini spacecraft, a newly published research paper suggests that Lake Ontario Lacus on Saturn’s moon Titan is very similar to…
Cassini Views Saturn’s Moons Enceladus and Tethys
NASA’s Cassini spacecraft captured surface temperature measurements with its composite infrared spectrometer and several images as it completed its flyby of Saturn’s moons Enceladus and…
Magnetic Anomalies on Moon
A new report suggests that the magnetic anomalies on the moon are remnants of a massive asteroid collision, which is believed to have occurred some…
New NASA Videos of the Moon
Below are two new videos released from NASA showing the evolution of the moon and a narrated tour of the moon. A Narrated Tour of…
GRAIL Spacecraft Officially Begins Collecting Lunar Data
The GRAIL spacecraft has officially begun its science phase and will map the gravity field of the moon three times over the next 84 days,…
Researchers Discover Oxygen Molecules in Dione’s Exosphere
By combining data from one of Cassini’s instruments, called CAPS (Cassini Plasma Spectrometer), researchers discovered that Dione’s exosphere contains molecules of oxygen. The researchers estimate…
Research Papers Explore Titan’s Atmosphere
Recently published research papers reveal new details of how Saturn’s moon Titan shifts with the seasons and throughout the day. The research is based on…
NASA LRO Spacecraft Reveals Geological Activity on the Moon’s Surface
Researchers recently examined the new high-resolution images from NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) spacecraft and found that “recent” geologic activity has occurred on the moon….
Moon Data Allows Creation of Detailed Lunar 3-D Map
While NASA released some detailed lunar data late last year, no one had used this data to create a map in true 3-D, something that…
NASA Plans Space Outpost on the Far Side of the Moon at Earth Moon Lagrange Point 2
NASA wants to plan a space outpost parked near the Lagrange point, where the Earth’s and moon’s gravitation fields nearly cancel each other out, making…
NASA’s GRAIL Mission Returns Video From Far Side of the Moon
The first images and video from NASA’s GRAIL mission of the far side of the moon were captured on January 19, 2012, by the MoonKAM…
MIT Researchers Examine New Lunar Dynamo Evidence
New research by MIT scientists on lunar rock suggests that the moon once had a molten, convecting core of liquid metal. They believe this dynamo…
Russian Mars Moon Probe Phobos-Grunt Crashed In Pacific Ocean
The Phobos-Grunt spacecraft, which was supposed to have traveled to Phobos, a moon of Mars, and back, crashed on Earth. The ambitious project crashed into…
GRAIL Probes Now Orbiting The Moon
Two new satellites are now in orbit around the moon and they could give us some valuable info about whether our moon merged with another…