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How NASA’s Flight Plan Described the Apollo 11 Moon Landing
A second-by-second guide to the historic mission
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Mars’ Gravity Is Slowly Shredding Its Moon Phobos
Telltale grooves on the moon’s surface are an early sign of Phobos’ grim fate
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In a Rare Pairing, a Venus-Like Planet Has Been Found Around a “Failed Star”
The system offers clues to the way planets and moons form and may aid in the quest to find habitable worlds across the galaxy
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Stunning New Views of Enceladus, Saturn’s 6th-Largest Moon
A new flyby has revealed a spidery network of cracks crisscrossing its northern pole
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The Photos of the Rare Supermoon/Lunar Eclipse Convergence Do Not Disappoint
Take in the majesty of the unusual astrophysical event with these photos captured around the world
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50-Year-Old Moon Data Reveals Unseen Earthquakes
Scientists have identified four different types of moonquakes in data left over from Apollo 17
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Earth’s Gravity Is Reshaping the Moon
Leaving cracks on the surface as it slowly contracts
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Plants Might Move with the Moon Just as the Oceans Do with Tides
One researcher calls it the “leaftide”
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Go to the Moon for Less than $10,000! One Catch: Dead People Only
It’s the cheapest option yet for choosing the Moon as a final resting place
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The European Space Agency Wants to Build a Moon Village
Someday soon, the hot new European vacation spot could have a great view of the planet Earth
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Astronauts Fill Out Customs Forms, Too
Read Buzz Aldrin’s expense report and customs form from his Apollo 11 mission to the moon
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Breathtaking Space GIF Gives Earth a New Perspective of the Moon
NASA’s EPIC camera took the image a million miles from Earth
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A Streak in the Sky: Photographer Captures an Incredible Time-lapse Image of the Moon
Janne Voutilainen’s photo took nearly 40 minutes to shoot
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The Time a Space Observatory Was Mistaken for a Second Moon
For 13 hours, the space observatory Gaia was misidentified as a natural satellite orbiting Earth
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Japan Plans a Trip to the Moon by 2018
The lander will use information from Japan’s moon-orbiting satellite to stick the landing
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The Moon Was Formed in a Smashup Between Earth and a Near Twin
But solving one puzzle of lunar origins has raised another linked to the abundances of tungsten in the primordial bodies
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Could NASA Stop on the Moon on the Way to Mars?
NASA’s chief of human exploration thinks we’ll need a pit stop en route to the fiery planet
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Saturday’s Lunar Eclipse Will Be The Shortest This Century
Will you spot this weekend’s “blood moon”?
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“Wereplant” Releases Its Pollen By the Light of the Full Moon
An unassuming shrub from the Mediterranean is the first documented case of a plant timing its reproduction to the lunar cycle
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Bet You Didn’t Know About the Earth’s ‘Second Moon’
Even astronomers didn’t realize it was following the Earth until 1997
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