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Water on the Moon: It's Been There All Along
February 18, 2013 — Traces of water have been detected within the crystalline structure of mineral samples from the lunar highland upper crust obtained during the Apollo missions, according to ... > full story -
NASA Beams Mona Lisa to Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter at the Moon
January 17, 2013 — As part of the first demonstration of laser communication with a satellite at the moon, scientists with NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter beamed an image of the Mona Lisa to the spacecraft from ... > full story -
NASA's GRAIL Lunar Impact Site Named for Astronaut Sally Ride
December 17, 2012 — NASA has named the site where twin agency spacecraft impacted the moon Monday in honor of the late astronaut Sally K. Ride, who was America's first woman in space and a member of the probes' mission ... > full story -
NASA GRAIL Lunar Twins Begin Their Last Burn
December 17, 2012 — Ebb and Flow -- the two twin spacecraft of NASA's Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory (GRAIL) mission -- have begun their final rocket burns. They are scheduled to impact the moon at around 2:28 ... > full story -
Rocket Burn Sets Stage for Dynamic Moon Duos' Lunar Impact
December 16, 2012 — The lunar twins of NASA's Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory (GRAIL) mission have each completed a rocket burn that has sealed their fate. The burns modified the orbit of the formation-flying ... > full story -
Asteroid Toutatis Slowly Tumbles by Earth
December 16, 2012 — Scientists working with NASA's 230-foot-wide (70-meter) Deep Space Network antenna at Goldstone, Calif., have generated a series of radar data images of a three-mile-long (4.8-kilometer) asteroid ... > full story -
NASA Probes Prepare for Mission-Ending Moon Impact
December 13, 2012 — Twin lunar-orbiting NASA spacecraft that have allowed scientists to learn more about the internal structure and composition of the moon are being prepared for their controlled descent and impact on a ... > full story -
Venus Transit and Lunar Mirror Could Help Astronomers Find Worlds Around Other Stars
December 13, 2012 — On June 6, 2012, Venus passed directly between Earth and the sun, in a so-called transit where the planet appears as a silhouette against the solar disk, something that will not happen again until ... > full story -
Apollo's Lunar Dust Data Being Restored
December 6, 2012 — Forty years after the last Apollo spacecraft launched, the science from those missions continues to shape our view of the moon. In one of the latest developments, readings from the Apollo 14 and 15 ... > full story -
NASA Twin Spacecraft Create Most Accurate Gravity Map of Moon
December 5, 2012 — Twin NASA probes orbiting the moon have generated the highest resolution gravity field map of any celestial body. The new map, created by the Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory (GRAIL) mission, ... > full story
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