Greenbelt, Md. (UPI) May 30, 2013 - Anyone who's been to the beach - and seen the ocean's tides - knows the moon's gravitational effects on Earth are rather obvious. The effects of Earth's gravitational pull on the moon are less apparent.
Berkeley, Calif. (UPI) May 29, 2013 - Samples of moon dust gathered by the first men to walk on the moon and missing for more than 40 years have been found in a California warehouse, officials said.
West Lafayette, Ind. (UPI) May 28, 2013 - Unusual minerals in impact craters on the moon may not have originated on the moon, but may be from asteroids that created the craters a U.S. researcher says.
West Lafayette, Ind. (UPI) May 22, 2013 - Earth is pushing the moon away faster now than it has for most of the past 50 million years, mostly a result of tides, a U.S. researcher says.
Huntsville AL (SPX) May 19, 2013 - For the past 8 years, NASA astronomers have been monitoring the Moon for signs of explosions caused by meteoroids hitting the lunar surface. Lunar meteor showers have turned out to be more common
Greenbelt, Md. (UPI) May 17, 2013 - NASA astronomers monitoring the moon for signs of meteor impacts say they've identified the biggest explosion in the history of the observation program.
Providence RI (SPX) May 14, 2013 - Water inside the Moon's mantle came from primitive meteorites, new research finds, the same source thought to have supplied most of the water on Earth. The findings raise new questions about the pro
Washington DC (SPX) May 14, 2013 - Water is perhaps the most important molecule in our solar system. Figuring out where it came from and how it was distributed within and among the planets can help scientists understand how planets f
Washington (UPI) May 13, 2013 - Tonight, Saturn will appear in the night sky just to the lower left of the moon.
Redondo Beach CA (SPX) May 10, 2013 - Northrop Grumman has completed a feasibility study for a new commercial lunar lander for the Golden Spike Company (GSC). The study confirmed the viability of lander concepts for Golden Spike's human
Washington (RIA Novosti) May 02, 2013 - French scientists successfully used a laser to find the Soviet-era Lunokhod 1 rover on the surface of the moon, 42 years after the first planetary exploration vehicle to land on another celestial bo
Karlskrona, Sweden (SPX) Apr 25, 2013 - Safeguarding consistent reliability and profitability of solar power installations is a major challenge for the solar industry as a whole. Some of the greatest operational liabilities include: insta
Washington DC (SPX) Apr 10, 2013 - The radiation environment near the Moon could be damaging to humans and electronics on future missions. To characterize this potentially hazardous environment, the Cosmic Ray Telescope for the
Washington (UPI) Apr 7, 2013 - Just a week after Google announced its Lunar X competition, teams of engineers and scientists are racing to build a robotic spacecraft that can successfully land on the moon. A prize of $30 million awaits the first to accomplish the feat - and so does television stardom.
Moscow (Voice of Russia) Apr 06, 2013 - Having on hand an impressive record of successful moon missions performed when it was the Soviet Union, Russia has set to revive a robotic moon exploration program. The country's serious intentions
Providence RI (SPX) Apr 03, 2013 - Despite the unimaginable energy produced during large impacts on the Moon, those impacts may not wipe the mineralogical slate clean, according to new research led by Brown University geoscientists.
