30 January 2018
Rare 'Super Blue Blood Moon' due tomorrow
... three celestial events – a supermoon, a blue moon and a lunar eclipse – all happen at the same time. A supermoon occurs ...if the weather is favourable. If you miss the 31st January lunar eclipse, then you’ll have to wait almost another year for the...
April 2019
Is a military space force justified?
... cannot. Similarly, members of the armed services can conduct scientific research on the Moon but cannot establish a lunar military base. The interplay between peaceful uses and the military generally has led many commentators...
03 January 2017
What did 2016 do for us?
..., and making the last views of Enceladus. Chang’e 5, China’s unmanned mission to the moon is expected to land on the lunar surface this year and is expected to bring back to Earth at least two kilograms of rock and soil samples...
12 June 2019
Mysterious mass found under Moon's South Pole
... the highest resolution gravity field map of any celestial body. "When we combined that with lunar topography data from the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, we discovered the unexpectedly large amount of mass hundreds of miles underneath the South...
17 September 2021
NASA funds project to mine the Moon with swarms of autonomous robots
...autonomous robots to mine for rare-Earth elements and other lunar material on the moon. Led by researchers at the University... times faster than any other method. As efficient as it is, lunar mining still presents a challenge. "Here on Earth, we have...
20 March 2017
Scientists challenge how planets are defined
... five institutions will present a proposed new definition of "planet," and a justification for that definition at the upcoming Lunar and Planetary Science conference which is being held this week in Texas. Runyon and his co-authors argue...
