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September 18 marks the first International Lunar Observation Night (InOMN), an international initiative that coincides with the first anniversary launch of NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO).

A team of planetary geologists has produced a new global catalog of the large craters on the Moon that will help better understand the large-scale bombardment that characterized the early Solar System more than 4 billion years ago.

Two small asteroids will pass close to Earth today. Celestial objects do not pose a threat, nor will they be detectable with the naked eye, according to Donald Yeomans, head of NASA's Near Earth program, which tracks potentially dangerous asteroid and comets in a radius of tens of millions of kilometers.

Recent images obtained by NASA's LRO lunar orbiter have revealed the existence of 14 lobe scarps or thrust faults (elevations with small inclination angle) in the highlands of the Moon.

NASA's Cassini spacecraft has successfully completed its flyby over Saturn, the Moon Tethys, the Moon Dione, and the "tiger stripes," linear prominences located in the south polar region of Enceladus, another of Saturn's moons.

In recent months, some studies have been published suggesting that the interior of the Moon contains more water than scientists previously thought, but now a new analysis of lunar samples collected during NASA's Apollo missions indicates that the Moon essentially it does not have any water.

Until now it was thought that the age of our planet was 4.53 billion years, but German, Swiss and British astronomers have just calculated that it is actually between 4.4 billion and 4.51 billion years old. That is, it is between 20 and 90 million years younger than previously believed.

Italian inventor Enrico Dini has created a three-dimensional printer that uses magnesium-based sand and glue to build rock-resistant objects and sculptures layer by layer. His dream now is to use this technology to create a giant printer with which to build habitable buildings on the Moon.