Lunar News

Posted March 27, 2012:

• Flying Formation -- Around the Moon at 3,600 Mph

Posted March 29, 2012:

• Titanium Paternity Test Fingers Earth as Moon's Sole Parent

Posted March 22, 2012:

• NASA GRAIL Returns First Student-Selected Moon Images

Posted March 20, 2012:

• Super-Earth Unlikely Able to Transfer Life to Other Planets

Posted March 19, 2012:

• Cosmic Rays Alter Chemistry of Lunar Ice, May Create Building Blocks of Life

Posted March 7, 2012:

• NASA's Twin GRAIL Spacecraft Begin Collecting Lunar Data

Posted March 8, 2012:

• Magnetic Moon: Magnetic Anomalies on Moon Are Result of Asteroid Collision

Posted March 6, 2012:

• Looking at the Man in the Moon: Astronomers Explain Why the Man in the Moon Faces Earth

Posted February 29, 2012:

• Astronomers Rediscover Life on Earth -- By Looking at the Moon

Posted February 20, 2012:

• NASA Spacecraft Reveals Recent Geological Activity on the Moon

Posted February 19, 2012:

• X-Rays Illuminate the Interior of the Moon

Posted February 1, 2012:

• NASA Mission Returns First Video from Moon's Far Side
• Sun Delivered Curveball of Powerful Radiation at Earth

Posted January 18, 2012:

• Montana Students Pick Winning Names for Moon Craft

Posted January 15, 2012:

• Moon-Walk Mineral Discovered in Western Australia

Posted January 13, 2012:

• Dark Side of the Moon Revealed: Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter's LAMP Reveals Lunar Surface Features

Posted December 31, 2011:

• First of NASA's GRAIL Spacecraft Enters Moon Orbit

Posted January 1, 2012:

• NASA's Twin GRAIL Spacecraft Reunite in Lunar Orbit

Posted December 7, 2011:

• Solar Storms Could Sandblast the Moon

Posted November 21, 2011:

• NASA Flies Robotic Lander Prototype to New Heights

Posted November 10, 2011:

• Giant Planet Ejected from the Solar System?

Posted November 9, 2011:

• Ancient Lunar Dynamo May Explain Magnetized Moon Rocks

Posted October 19, 2011:

• NASA's Spitzer Detects Comet Storm in Nearby Solar System

Posted October 7, 2011:

• NASA's Moon Twins Going Their Own Way
• Subtly Shaded Map of Moon Reveals Titanium Treasure Troves

Posted September 23, 2011:

• NASA to Demonstrate Communications Via Laser Beam

Posted September 10, 2011:

• NASA Launches Mission to Study Moon From Crust to Core

Posted September 6, 2011:

• Sharper Views of Apollo 12, 14, 17 Sites in New Images from NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter

Posted August 27, 2011:

• Cassini Closes in on Saturn's Tumbling Moon Hyperion
• NASA Moon Mission in Final Preparations for September Launch

Posted August 25, 2011:

• Earth-Bound Asteroids Come from Stony Asteroids, New Studies Confirm

Posted August 24, 2011:

• NASA's GRAIL Moon Twins Are Joined to Their Booster

Posted August 17, 2011:

• Moon Younger Than Previously Thought, Analysis of Lunar Rock Reveals

Posted August 12, 2011:

• GRAIL Twin Lunar Probes Launch Less Than One Month Away

Posted August 3, 2011:

• 'Big Splat' May Explain the Moon's Mountainous Far Side

Posted July 25, 2011:

• Unique Volcanic Complex Discovered on Moon's Far Side

Posted July 20, 2011:

• NASA's Hubble Discovers Another Moon Around Pluto

Posted July 13, 2011:

• Twin ARTEMIS Probes to Study Moon in 3-D

Posted June 29, 2011:

• First ARTEMIS Spacecraft Successfully Enters Lunar Orbit

Posted June 22, 2011:

• Cassini Captures Saturn's Icy Moon Helene

Posted May 26, 2011:

• Scientists Detect Earth-Equivalent Amount of Water Within the Moon

Posted May 13, 2011:

• Moon's Rough 'Wrinkles' Reveal Clues to Its Past

Posted May 10, 2011:

• Engineering Tests Leading the Way for NASA's Next NEEMO Mission

Posted March 16, 2011:

• NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Delivers Treasure Trove of Data

Posted March 13, 2011:

• Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter: The Far Side of the Moon -- And All the Way Around

Posted March 6, 2011:

• NASA Makes Use of Historic Test Site for New Robotic Lander Prototype Tests

Posted February 21, 2011:

• Waiter, There's Metal in My Moon Water

Posted February 9, 2011:

• Race Against Time to Find Apollo 14's Lost Voyagers: 'Moon Trees'

Posted January 26, 2011:

• NASA's New Robotic Lander Prototype Skates Through Integration and Testing

Posted January 11, 2011:

• Water on Moon Originated from Comets

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