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The Shackleton crater, at the south pole of the Moon, could contain ice, according to a group of scientists from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT, USA) in the journal Nature. The researchers used a laser altimeter on NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) to illuminate the interior of the crater and obtain a light reflection map across its surface.

The phases of the Moon are affecting the investigations of CERN's Large Hadron Collider (LHC). As reported by the research center, significant variations have been discovered in the collision values offered by the two major projects of this facility, Atlas and CMS, which are due to the gravitational power of the satellite, the same one that also produces the tides.

The full Moon on the night of May 5 to 6 will be perceived 14% larger and 30% brighter than usual when the natural satellite approaches Earth at the shortest distance so far in 2012, according to reports. NASA statement. The perigee (the minimum distance between the two celestial bodies) will be 356,953 km at 03.34 GMT on May 6, about 16,000 km below the average.

A team of astronomers from the University of Helsinki, the Paris Observatory and the University of Hawaii have simulated the passage of 10 million asteroids next to the Earth and have concluded that the Earth's gravity must have trapped a celestial object and that, at some point, in addition to the Moon, there was at least one "mini-moon" one meter in diameter revolving around our planet.

Some volcanic rocks found in Russia survived the collision of our planet with another celestial body that originated the Moon about 4,000 million years ago. The material has been preserved intact and has allowed a group of scientists to analyze it and publish the results in the journal Science.

Thanks to new maps produced by the Lyman Alpha Cartography Project (LAMP), aboard NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter probe, hitherto unknown features of regions at the north and south poles of the Moon have been discovered. in perpetual darkness.

Google, in collaboration with the company Zazzle, has created a store where all the decorative titles of the Internet search engine applied to T-shirts, bags, stamps, office products and mugs, among other gifts, can be purchased in print.

With the ski season about to start in Europe, many winter sports fans already dream of the best snow of all destinations in the region, from the Alps to Eastern Europe. But surely none of them will ever dream of sliding down one of Saturn's moons, Enceladus, where, according to astronomers from the EUROPLANET RI project, a snow has been created that would be ideal for skiing.