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Using cameras aboard the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) space probe, a team of NASA scientists has created the largest high-resolution mosaic of the Moon's north pole.

Eyes are on space more than ever, and efforts to facilitate future space missions have become a daily affair, especially around the moon. A method of producing electricity on the Moon at night has already been developed; now, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) has proposed the creation of service stations in space as a store for extra fuel in order to save time, money and, of course, fuel.

A team of Spanish astronomers, specifically from the University of Huelva and the Institute of Astrophysics of Andalusia, observed on September 11, 2013 the greatest impact of a rock against the Moon. The finding was made through two telescopes of the MIDAS Project (System for Detection and Analysis of Impacts on the Moon) and has been published in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society magazine.

Spending a day on the Moon means enduring temperatures close to 100 degrees. The twilight is not a consolation for crew and vehicles, since when you turn your back to the Sun, the surface of the satellite reaches -150 degrees.

NASA finalizes the details of the launch of the probe "Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer" (LADEE) that will orbit the moon and will take samples of the dust and gas present in its atmosphere. The orbiter seeks to obtain detailed information on the characteristics and origin of the lunar dust, an unknown that has not been addressed since the Apollo missions.

As if it were a legendary creature, the cycle of the moon affects our nocturnal behavior. Scientists at the University of Basel have shown what until now was a mere popular belief: the quality of our sleep varies according to the position of the moon and worsens during the full moon period. That is, human biorhythms adapt to the astronomical rhythm.

Two moons would have shone in Earth's night sky millions of years ago, according to a recent study to be presented in September at the Royal Society in London. Erik Asphaug, planetary scientist at the University of California at Santa Cruz, and Martin Jutzi, from the University of Bern, argue that during the collision between our planet and another celestial body that caused the lunar formation, another twin satellite was created, of which today we know.

Our Solar System is full of unsolved unknowns. Thanks to the technology of the Hubble telescope, they have just discovered the smallest moon that is orbiting Neptune.