Solar System
How Do Moon Phases Work?
The Sun always illuminates roughly half of the Moon. So why don’t we always see a half Moon? The answer is that how much of that illuminated half we can see changes as the Moon …
Earth’s Moon
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100m Liquid Telescope To Be Placed On The Moon
An international team of astronomers want to build a 100 meter in diameter telescope on the Moon. No this is not the plot of some sci-fi movie, it is very much something that could happen …
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Water Discovered on Sunlit Surface of the Moon
NASA’s flying SOFIA telescope has confirmed the presence of water on the Moon’s sunlit surface. This proves that water is not just present in the shadowy craters, but could be all over the lunar surface. …
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Chinese Land Rover On Dark Side Of Moon
The image above shows the culmination of the Chinese space agency’s Chang’e 4 mission to the dark side of the Moon. In the photo, the mission’s Jade Rabbit 2 lunar rover can be seen rolling …
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Earth’s Water Supply Survived Moon-Forming Impact
The image above shows an artist’s impression of the impact between Earth and a Mars-sized object in an event that is widely accepted as the mechanism that formed Earth’s Moon only about 100 million years …
Solar System
10 Interesting Facts About the Apollo Missions
NASA’s Apollo program took humans to the Moon for the first time, but the famous Apollo 11 landing was only one part of an extraordinary program of space exploration that ran throughout the 1960s and …
Astronomy Lists
Top Theories on How the Moon Formed
The Moon has been a constant source of wonder and fascination throughout mankind’s’ history, but despite being located a mere 238,900 miles or 1.28 light-seconds away, we know less about it and how it came …
Astronomy Lists
Top 10 Features on the Moon for Stargazers
Look at the Moon through binoculars or a telescope and you’ll find much more than craters. Its surface is covered with vast dark plains, rugged highlands, mountains, impact basins, valleys, rilles and bright rays of …
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Moon Village an Essential Part of a Space Exploration Strategy
The old proverb states that “it takes a village to raise a child”, but according to the European Space Agency (ESA) it will also take one to ensure the future of space exploration. In an …
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Russia and Europe Aim To Build Base On Dark Side Of The Moon
The European Space Agency (ESA) and Russian’s Federal Space Agency (Roscosmo) have announced a joint mission to the moon in 2020, whose primary goal will be to explore the South Pole region, and discover whether …