A lunar bouquet of flowers could greet astronauts who next set foot on the moon.

Odyssey Moon, a team competing for a $30 million purse in the Google Lunar X Prize contest, officially joined forces with another private space firm Friday to deliver the first greenhouse to the moon as part the "Lunar Oasis" project. picked by AutumnLotus 8 months ago

In 1969, the Apollo 11 mission met John F. Kennedy's 1962 challenge to put a man on the moon. July 20 marks 40 years since the historic lunar landing, when Neil Armstrong and Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin took the first moon walk as Michael Collins orbited overhead. Most people are familiar with Armstrong's "One small step for man," but here are 11 facts about the moon shot that might co... read full post picked by kakana 4 months ago

The moon formed after a nasty planetary collision with young Earth, yet it looks odd next to its watery orbital neighbor. Turns out it really is odd: Only about one in every 10 to 20 solar systems may harbor a similar moon. picked by AutumnLotus 2 years ago

Saturn's distinctive moon Iapetus (eye-APP-eh-tuss) is cryogenically frozen in the equivalent of its teenage years. The moon has retained the youthful figure and bulging waistline it sported more than three billion years ago. picked by AutumnLotus 2 years ago

On December 24t, 1968, Apollo 8 Orbited The Moon for the first time, carrying Frank Borman, James Lovell and William Anders where no man had gone before. Boldly. picked by pocksucket 11 months ago

Oh my lord! All these years we've laughed and scorned people for thinking that the moon landing was faked. Now new, incontrovertible evidence proves that we never made it to the moon! picked by 2manyusernames 1 year ago

Little test to see which side of the brain you use most. picked by marinuse 2 years ago

Imagine you are returning to the base ship on the sunlit side of the moon after carrying out a 72-hour exploration trip. Your small spacecraft has crash-landed about 200 miles from the base ship. You need to reach the base ship, in addition to your spacesuit, you were able to salvage the items listed below. Using what you know about the moon, rate each item in the above list according to how impor... read full post picked by ZebraHDH 1 year ago

Iapetus has a landscape unlike anything else in the solar system: sharp-edged islands of dark material within pale regions, and patches of white ice on the dark mountainsides. "It is startling," says Carolyn Porco, head of the Cassini imaging team at the Space Science Institute in Boulder, Colorado, US. picked by DrNothing 2 years ago

One of the best close-ups ever taken of the Martian moon Phobos reveals fresh details of the strange object.

The impact crater named Stickney is the largest feature on Phobos with a diameter of almost 6 miles (9 km). The crater wall textures come from landslides that formed as materials fell in the weak gravity of the moon. picked by AutumnLotus 2 years ago

The US space agency's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) spacecraft has returned its first images since reaching the Moon on 23 June.

The probe's two cameras returned images of a region in the lunar highlands south of Mare Nubium (Sea of Clouds). picked by AutumnLotus 5 months ago

Scientists don't know what dark energy is, but they observe its tugging effect, which causes the expansion of the universe to accelerate. Now they have seen this mysterious force in some of the largest known features of the cosmos, called superclusters and supervoids. picked by AutumnLotus 1 year ago

Moon rocks delivered to Earth by Apollo astronauts held a mystery that has plagued scientists since the 1970s: Why were the lunar rocks magnetic?

Earth's rotating, iron core produces the planet's magnetic field. But the moon does not have such a setup. picked by AutumnLotus 11 months ago

Venus and Jupiter have appeared side by side in the evening sky over the past week or so, but tonight was the best night to see the "face" appear, astronomers said. picked by AutumnLotus 12 months ago

"To celebrate the launch of the ground-breaking new comic book series adapted from Stephen King's magnum opus, The Dark Tower, Marvel Comics will offer a first-ever midnight release of The Dark Tower: The Gunslinger Born #1 the night of Tuesday, February 6, 2007."

I seriously can't wait! I'm so excited! picked by readingitall 3 years ago

Suns that exploded 9 billion years ago have helped prove that a mysterious force called dark energy was pushing the universe apart even back then, scientists reported on Thursday.

Don't expect any real answers though, we still have no idea what dark energy is. picked by donteatpoop 3 years ago

A SUPER-HOT planet 1500 light years away has been seen waxing and waning like the moon. The discovery hints that hot gas giants come in two varieties. picked by AutumnLotus 6 months ago

It's a good thing the Moon doesn't have any feelings to hurt. New research suggests it is actually 30 million years younger than anyone had thought, and that it is merely a 'chip off the old block' of Earth rather than being made up of the remnants of a Mars-sized body that slammed into Earth billions of years ago. picked by AutumnLotus 2 years ago

Lunar colonists could be in for a nasty shock — literally. A team of US scientists has found that the Moon's surface can become charged with up to several thousand volts of static electricity. picked by BrownTrout 3 years ago

Russia is working on a space transport system that could eventually lead to the industrialisation of the moon. picked by AutumnLotus 3 years ago