Tag: Moon
Near-Earth Asteroid Might be a Lost Fragment of the Moon
Near-Earth Asteroid Might be a Lost Fragment of the Moon
A team of UArizona-led researchers think that the near-Earth asteroid Kamo`oalewa might actually...
Methane in the plumes of Saturn’s moon Enceladus: Possible signs of...
A study published in Nature Astronomy concludes that known geochemical processes can’t explain the levels of methane measured by the Cassini spacecraft on Saturn’s icy moon.
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NASA Picks SpaceX to Land Next Americans on the Moon
NASA picks Starship to land on the moon because NASA is getting ready to send astronauts to explore more of the Moon as part...
Ingredients for water could be made on surface of moon, a...
When a stream of charged particles known as the solar wind careens onto the Moon's surface at 450 kilometers per second (or nearly 1...
NASA camera catches moon ‘photobombing’ Earth
On July 5, 2016, the moon passed between NOAA's DSCOVR satellite and Earth. NASA's EPIC camera aboard DSCOVR snapped these images over a period...
‘Fresh’ lunar craters discovered
Using data from the LAMP instrument aboard the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, a Southwest Research Institute-led team of scientists discovered two geologically young craters --...
Supernova iron found on the moon
A dying star ends its life in a cataclysmic explosion, shooting the majority of the star's material, primarily new chemical elements created during the...
