The past and future of space exploration at the ‘Beyond Planet Earth’ exhibit
The Vostok capsule, in which Yuri Gagarin embarked on April 12, 1961 to become the first ...
Tag: Moon
Jupiter’s icy moon Europa said to foster life in its oceans – NASA live transmission
[caption id="attachment_10123" align="alignnone" width="500" caption="The robot spacecraft Galileo captured this image mosaic during its mission orbiting Jupiter from 1995 - ...
China’s first ever space docking mission set for today
[caption id="attachment_9690" align="alignnone" width="500" caption="The Shenzhou 8 spacecraft is due to launch atop a Chinese Long March 2F rocket Oct. ...
Mining the moon: an entrepreneur’s vision
While the ...
Russia wants to build a base in the Moon’s underground tunnels
[caption id="attachment_9366" align="alignnone" width="499" caption="A high resolution image taken by NASA's LROC shows a 100m deep cave inside the moon's ...
Pluto gets a new moonand still isn’t a planet
All eyes seem to be pointed on Jupiter and Mars these days, with NASA probes being planned for both of ...
Hubble discoveres new moon around Pluto
Astronomers have discovered ...
Incredible picture of the red Moon during the eclipse (with explanation)
Photo by NASA. I sure hope everybody knows what an eclipse is and there's no need ...
The moon’s interior is wet, amazing new study shows
Two years ago, NASA's LCROSS probe was looking for signs of water when it smashed into Cabeus crater at the ...
Woman busted for trying to sell ‘moon rock’ for 1.7 million$
A recent NASA operation (who knew they do this ...
Stunning photos of the ‘supermoon’ from across the world
This Saturday night, those lucky enough to catch clear skies were in for a treat when the brightest, "biggest" full ...
‘Supermoon’ spectacle will lightup the sky on Saturday night
Romantics and astronomy aficionados alike (much of the same aren't they?) will rejoice as this Saturday a rare spectacle of ...
New footage of Moon Landing found
A long lost footage of the best minutes of the moon landing (Neil Armstrong going down the ladder) has been ...
Japan plans a Moon base by 2020, built by the robots, for the robots
[caption id="attachment_3244" align="aligncenter" width="500" caption="While America seems to have lost most of its lunar ambitions, the same thing can't be ...
Additional evidence of water activity on moon as ice is found on the North Pole
Employing the help of the Mini-SAR instrument (a lightweight, synthetic aperture radar), NASA managed to find more than 40 craters ...
Saturn’s moon full of geysers
There are many things we have yet to find out about Saturn, but the Cassini probe has definitely shed some ...
Water and fog found on Titan, Saturn’s moon
As I was writing in a previous post, Titan is quite unique, in that aside from our planet it's the ...
A 400 year old Moon map corrects history, making Galileo Galilei a runner up
As we learn (or at least should) at quite an early age, Galileo Galilei had quite the impact on science, ...
Moon did hold water
Scientists have believed for years that the moon doesn't have water, only to find that its interior proved them wrong, ...