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NASA Solves Half-Century Old Moon Mystery
February 25, 2003 — In the early morning hours of Nov. 15, 1953, an amateur astronomer in Oklahoma photographed what he believed to be a massive, white-hot fireball of vaporized rock rising from the center of the ... > full story -
Moon's Early History May Have Been Interrupted By Big Burp, Geophysicists Claim
January 9, 2003 — Using a state-of-the-art computer model of the lunar interior, geophysicists at the University of California, Berkeley, have shown that a mighty burp early in the moon's history could account for ... > full story -
Titan's Bizarre Landscape Shaped More By Internal Heat Than Erosion, Scientist Predicts
October 15, 2002 — Six months after NASA's Cassini spacecraft reaches Saturn in July 2004, it will deploy the European Space Agency's Huygens probe to Saturn's largest moon, Titan. A cold, dark, ... > full story -
First Confirmed Capture Into Earth Orbit Is Likely Apollo Rocket
September 27, 2002 — NASA scientists have confirmed the first known capture of an object into Earth orbit from a Sun-centered orbit, thanks to continuing observations of what is most likely the long-lost third stage of a ... > full story -
Dust In "Earth's Attic" Could Hold Evidence Of Planet's Earliest Life
July 23, 2002 — The dust has been piling up in Earth's attic for billions of years, and now some scientists want to sift through the accumulation to see if they can find evidence of the planet's earliest ... > full story -
Getting Power From The Moon
April 16, 2002 — If a physicist in Houston has his way you’ll be able to say good-bye to pollution-causing energy production from fossil fuels. In the April/May issue of The Industrial Physicist Dr. David ... > full story -
Moon's Heart Melted, Say Lunar Love Numbers
February 14, 2002 — Love numbers -- measures of how much a planet's surface and interior move in response to the gravitational pull of nearby bodies -- may indicate that the Moon has something like a molten slush ... > full story -
University Of Washington Researcher Plans Project To Pin Down Moon's Distance From Earth
January 16, 2002 — Tom Murphy plans to spend much of the next five years using the Apache Point telescope in New Mexico as a tape measure 239,000 miles long – give or take a millimeter. He'll employ the ... > full story -
Lunar Soil Yields Evidence About Sun's Dynamic Workings
October 12, 2001 — Soil collected on the moon by Purdue University alumnus Eugene Cernan nearly 30 years ago has helped researchers at his alma mater and the University of California uncover new details about the ... > full story -
NASA Gives Green Light For Deep Impact Mission Development
May 28, 2001 — NASA approved development of a robotic spacecraft mission that reads more like a story line from a science fiction movie script. Imagine intercepting a comet in deep space and using a heavy ... > full story
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