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In the early morning of Saturday, May 5, the full Moon was perceived 14% larger and 30% brighter than usual when the satellite was at perigee, that is, its closest point to the

The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) probe has obtained the most accurate images seen from space to date of the locations where Apollo 12, Apollo 14 and Apollo 17 landed.

NASA's twin satellites Ebb and Flow, which are part of the GRAIL mission (Recovery and Inner Gravity Laboratory, according to its acronym in English) and which during the last year have captured images that have allowed us to know the internal structure of the Moon and its composition, they will conclude their mission today when they crash into a mountain at the north pole of the satellite, near a crater called Goldschmidt.

The lunar crust was almost totally pulverized in the past by asteroid and comet bombardments. This is the conclusion reached by geophysicist Maria Zuber, scientific head of the GRAIL mission, after analyzing the map of the lunar gravitational field generated by the probes of this NASA mission, which has been described as the one with the "highest resolution obtained to date from a celestial body ".

Where does the Moon come from? From the earth. According to a new theory developed by Harvard researchers, our satellite was part of Earth itself until its mass was shot into space during a collision with another body. This explains why our planet and its satellite have such a similar chemical composition, the authors conclude in the journal Science.

A lump of lunar meteorite weighing two kilos has been up for auction. It is the fourth largest lunar fragment that has been made available to the public and according to the experts of the Heritage house, in charge of the sale, although the initial offer is 130,000 euros its price could exceed 260,000 euros when the auction ends, next October 14.

On September 12, 1962, half a century ago, John F. Kennedy, President of the United States, delivered a speech at Rice University in which he pointed out that in less than a decade the goal of visiting the Moon would be achieved.

This August will be a special month because it begins on the night of the 2nd with a full Moon and ends on the 31st with a second full Moon. The coincidence of two full moons in the same calendar month is a rare phenomenon that astronomers call "Blue Moon".