The twin GRAIL probes were sent into orbit around the Moon in the last days of 2011, designed to use gravity itself to measure the Moon’s interior composition […]
Sit back, relax and take in some of NASA’s most memorable images from the past…. [flickrapi user=”astronautdotcom” get=”photoset” id=”72157633095626342″ size=”z” count=”100″] [fbshare]
Buzz Aldrin‘s 1969 guide on Moon landing to go on sale LONDON: ” Contact Light“, spoken by Buzz Aldrin, and not the historic ‘One small step’ quote by Neil Armstrong, […]
This is an edited, single-shot (not time-lapse) video of the moon rising over Mount Victoria Lookout in Wellington, New Zealand two days ago. It was filmed […]
Setting up a lunar base could be made much simpler by using a 3D printer to build it from local materials. Industrial partners including renowned architects […]
Photographer Lauren Hartnett took a fantastic picture: Two Moons literally passing in the night! Hartnett was in Houston, Texas—at NASA’s Johnson Space Center, appropriately enough—on Jan. […]
Astronauts, unsurprisingly, get a unique view of Earth. Their perspective removes them from the day-to-day strife those of us surface-dwellers experience, and over time they get […]
Man-in-the-Moon, meet humankind’s most enigmatic Earthly smile, courtesy of NASA. The U.S. space agency’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) scientists this week beamed an image of the […]