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NASA's GRAIL Mission Solves Mystery of Moon's Surface Gravity
May 31, 2013 (JPL)
NASA's Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory (GRAIL) mission has uncovered the origin of massive invisible regions that make the moon's gravity uneven, a phe...
NASA mission solves mystery of moon's uneven gravity
May 30, 2013 (UPI)
NASA says its Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory mission uncovered the origin of massive regions inside the moon that make its gravity uneven. GRAIL's fin...
Earth's gravitational pull stretches moon surface
May 30, 2013 (UPI)
Anyone who's been to the beach -- and seen the ocean's tides -- knows the moon's gravitational effects on Earth are rather obvious. The effects of Earth's gravi...
Moon dust samples missing for 40 years found in Calif. warehouse
May 29, 2013 (UPI)
Samples of moon dust gathered by the first men to walk on the moon and missing for more than 40 years have been found in a California warehouse, officials said....
Unusual minerals in moon craters may have been delivered from space
May 28, 2013 (UPI)
Unusual minerals in impact craters on the moon may not have originated on the moon, but may be from asteroids that created the craters a U.S. researcher says. T...
Moon being pushed away from Earth faster than ever
May 22, 2013 (UPI)
Earth is pushing the moon away faster now than it has for most of the past 50 million years, mostly a result of tides, a U.S. researcher says. Matthew Huber of ...
Bright Explosion on the Moon
May 19, 2013 (SPX)
For the past 8 years, NASA astronomers have been monitoring the Moon for signs of explosions caused by meteoroids hitting the lunar surface. "Lunar meteor showe...
NASA says meteor impact on the moon glowed like a star
May 17, 2013 (UPI)
NASA astronomers monitoring the moon for signs of meteor impacts say they've identified the biggest explosion in the history of the observation program. The sci...
Water on moon, Earth have a common source
May 14, 2013 (SPX)
Water inside the Moon's mantle came from primitive meteorites, new research finds, the same source thought to have supplied most of the water on Earth. The find...
Where on Earth did the moon's water come from
May 14, 2013 (SPX)
Water is perhaps the most important molecule in our solar system. Figuring out where it came from and how it was distributed within and among the planets can he...
Saturn in opposition tonight, will appear next to the moon
May 13, 2013 (UPI)
Tonight, Saturn will appear in the night sky just to the lower left of the moon. Just a few days ago, Saturn was "in opposition," the closest it will be to Eart...
Northrop Grumman Completes Lunar Lander Study for Golden Spike Company
May 10, 2013 (SPX)
Northrop Grumman has completed a feasibility study for a new commercial lunar lander for the Golden Spike Company (GSC). The study confirmed the viability of la...
Scientists Use Laser to Find Soviet Moon Rover
May 02, 2013 (RIA Novosti)
French scientists successfully used a laser to find the Soviet-era Lunokhod 1 rover on the surface of the moon, 42 years after the first planetary exploration v...
Characterizing The Lunar Radiation Environment
Apr 10, 2013 (SPX)
The radiation environment near the Moon could be damaging to humans and electronics on future missions. To characterize this potentially hazardous environment, ...
Science, Discovery Channels to broadcast private race to the moon
Apr 07, 2013 (UPI)
Just a week after Google announced its Lunar X competition, teams of engineers and scientists are racing to build a robotic spacecraft that can successfully lan...
Russia rekindles Moon exploration program, intends setting up first human outposts there
Apr 06, 2013 (Voice of Russia)
Having on hand an impressive record of successful moon missions performed when it was the Soviet Union, Russia has set to revive a robotic moon exploration prog...
Pre-existing mineralogy may survive lunar impacts
Apr 03, 2013 (SPX)
Despite the unimaginable energy produced during large impacts on the Moon, those impacts may not wipe the mineralogical slate clean, according to new research l...
Lunar cycle determines hunting behaviour of nocturnal gulls
Mar 29, 2013 (SPX)
Zooplankton, small fish and squid spend hardly any time at the surface when there's a full moon. To protect themselves from their natural enemies, they hide dee...
Ultraviolet spectrograph observes mercury and hydrogen in GRAIL impact plumes
Mar 28, 2013 (SPX)
When NASA's twin GRAIL spacecraft made their final descent for impact onto the Moon's surface last December, the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter's sophisticated pa...
NASA's LRO Sees GRAIL's Explosive Farewell
Mar 21, 2013 (SPX)
Many spacecraft just fade away, drifting silently through space after their mission is over, but not GRAIL. NASA's twin GRAIL (Gravity Recovery and Interior Lab...
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