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This true story of a hammer, a feather, the Apollo 15 mission, and the answers to humanity’s oldest questions about how stuff falls. From a report: Does a falling object move at a constant speed, or does it speed up? If you drop a heavy object and a li… Continue reading The Greatest Physics Demo of All Time Happened on the Moon
Astronomers said this week that a piece of a Falcon 9 rocket that was launched in February 2015 is currently on a trajectory to collide with the moon in just a few weeks. CBS News reports: The rocket left from Florida’s Cape Canaveral and launched NOAA… Continue reading A Piece of a SpaceX Rocket Is On Track To Collide With the Far Side of the Moon
With temperatures plunging to -232 °C (-387 °F), the lunar night is not a friendly place for electronics. Space technology company Masten has developed a new way to tackle this problem in the form of its Nighttime Integrated Thermal and Electricity (NI… Continue reading Innovative chemical heating system keeps lunar landers warm at night
Showing that space junk isn’t a local problem, observations by amateur astronomers have determined that the upper stage of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched in 2015 will impact the Moon on March 4 at 12:25 GMT.Continue ReadingCategory: Space, ScienceTa… Continue reading Discarded SpaceX rocket is on a collision course with the Moon
Astronomers say they have found a second plausible candidate for a moon beyond our solar system, an exomoon, orbiting a world nearly 6,000 light-years from Earth. Scientific American reports: Called Kepler-1708 b-i, the moon appears to be a gas-dominat… Continue reading Astronomers Have Found Another Possible ‘Exomoon’ beyond Our Solar System
“It’s a rock. A small rock,” writes Slashdot reader BeerFartMoron. CBS News reports: China has discovered the explanation for the mysterious “hut” its Yutu 2 rover spotted on the moon late last year. As the lunar rover made a closer approach, a log of … Continue reading China Finds Explanation For ‘Mystery Hut’ Spotted On the Moon
Data from China’s Chang’E-5 lunar lander analyzed by an international team led by the Chinese Academy of Sciences shows that the robotic spacecraft has, for the first time, detected traces of water in the rocks and regolith on the Moon’s surface.Contin… Continue reading China’s Chang’E-5 lander finds first onsite evidence of water on the Moon
Is the unmistakable sound of the shuffling of LEGO pieces being dug through burned into your psyche? Did the catalog of ever more complex Technic pieces send your imagination soaring …read more Continue reading LEGOpunk Orrery Knows Just the Right Technics
“China has formally approved three missions targeting the south pole of the moon, with the first to launch around 2024…” reports Space.com, “each with different goals and an array of spacecraft.”
The trio make up the so-called fourth phase for the C… Continue reading China Speeds Up Moon Base Plan in Space Race Against America
Although we generally think of flying saucers as craft used by aliens in sci-fi movies, MIT scientists are now proposing utilizing one of their own design to explore the Moon. The vehicle would hover above the lunar surface via the force of electrostat… Continue reading MIT-designed “flying saucer” may one day hover its way across the Moon