Moon
November 1, 2015
Mars has two moons, but they’re both quite small and unusual. Phobos is the larger of the two, and it orbits close to the planet. Even […]
October 31, 2015
The Cassini Spacecraft made a daring, close flyby this week of Enceladus, one of Saturn’s icy moons, to get a taste of water ice spewing from the moon’s […]
October 20, 2015
It’s time to get to know a new friend: asteroid 2015 TB145, a sizeable chunk of rock that’s hurtling through space at speeds of over 126,000 […]
October 9, 2015
A private team from Israel has become the first to secure a launch contract to loft a rover into space and, with any luck, on to […]
August 19, 2015
Finally, we have proof of the moon’s “noble” heritage! Measurements from NASA’s Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer, aka LADEE (pronounced “laddie”) have confirmed the long-suspected presence […]
August 4, 2015
Like any other American returning home from a business trip out of the country, former NASA astronaut Buzz Aldrin filled out an expense report and a […]
July 29, 2015
The Lunar Roving Vehicle (Lunar Rover) The Lunar Roving Vehicle (LRV) or lunar rover was a battery-powered four-wheeled rover used on the Moon in the last […]
July 27, 2015
With New Horizons’ flyby of Pluto, spacecraft launched by humans have now visited the nine biggest planets (dwarf or otherwise) orbiting the sun. Publications such as […]