The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) probe has obtained the most accurate images seen to date from space of the places where the Apollo 12, Apollo 14 and Apollo 17 spacecraft landed. The photographs show the footprints left by the astronauts on their walks of exploration, as well as the makes of the moon cars they used.
The first nuclear power plant to produce electricity on the Moon, Mars and other planets is now ready to fly. The device uses an innovative fission technology different from that used by land-based nuclear power plants. The new reactor, developed by NASA and the US Department of Energy, will be the size of a suitcase and will not require cooling towers.
The Moon may not be as old as previously thought. Scientists at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California calculated a new age for Earth's only satellite: 4.36 billion years, that is, approximately 200 million less than the figure managed so far.
The twin probes that make up the Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory (GRAIL) glow in white light at Astrotech, not far from NASA's Kennedy space complex. They are about to be placed inside the protective cap of the Delta II Heavy shuttle for its launch towards the Moon, on September 8.
Now our planet has only one satellite, but the Earth once had two moons until one of them, the smaller one, crashed into its older sister - 25 times heavier - in the lunar mountainous region known as the lunar highlands, according to a new study by scientists at the University of California, Santa Cruz (UCSC), in the US.
The Hubble Space Telescope, from NASA and the European Space Agency (ESA), has discovered a new moon around Pluto. The dwarf planet's fourth natural satellite, provisionally named P4, is the smallest ever found orbiting it.
Next Wednesday, June 15, one of the biggest astronomical events of the year will take place: a total lunar eclipse that will be visible, weather conditions permitting, from Europe, East Africa, Central Asia, the Middle East, the West. from Australia and some regions of South America.
A study by scientists from the Carnegie Institution of Washington (USA) has determined that the interior of the Moon contains as much water as the upper mantle of the Earth, which is a hundred times higher than previously thought.
Danni Büchner is invited to Sam Dylan's Halloween party. But the "Goodbye Germany" emigrant has no desire for many other party guests. And find clear words.
