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Beautiful Moon Images from NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter
NASA’s lunar spacecraft has sent back over 192 Terabytes of data — including some gorgeous new photos of the moon’s terrain. Continue reading
Mysterious Ice Plumes on Saturn’s Moon Hint at Hidden Ocean
NASA’s Cassini spacecraft has captured exciting new imagery, which shows evidence for the existence of liquid water on one of Saturn’s moons. Continue reading
Underground Lava Cave Could Support Lunar Base
Newly discovered caves on our moon could very well lead to the future moon outpost that is vital towards our hopes of exploring our solar system. Continue reading
Pinheads All the Way Down
Bill O’Reilly takes on all those pinheads who think that gravity is enuf. But in a fantasy smackdown with Richard Feynman, who fares better? Videos after the jump. Continue reading
Get Your Phases Sorted
Among the lunar-phase calendars usually found stacked in crystal shops and New-Age book stores, a radial version by designer and type founder Dimitre Lima stands out. Continue reading
Total Eclipse of the Shuttle
The Earth’s shadow cast against the Moon evokes the space shuttle Discovery‘s dwindling, penumbral career. Continue reading
Total Eclipse of the Moon
For the first time since 1638, a lunar eclipse coincides with the winter solstice. Add the Ursid meteor shower, and the tonight’s sky offers a triple dose of wintry glamor. Continue reading
Mystery image: astronomical, animal, or edible?
Is it the surface of an asteroid? Alzheimer’s-ravaged brain tissue riddled with amyloid plaques? An electron micrograph of Limburger cheese? Answer after the jump. Continue reading
The Wonderful Gallery of Science: Galileo’s moon
“Just as the shadows in the hollows of the Earth diminish in size as the Sun rises higher, so also these spots on the Moon lose their blackness as the illuminated part grows larger and larger.” Continue reading
Corporate Sci-Fi: the Luna Ring
The Tokyo-based Shimizu Corporation is one of the world’s leading construction and engineering contractors. It’s also a prolific producer of corporate science fiction: fanciful, high-concept design projects that offer glimpses of astonishing futures. Its “Luna Ring” envisions such a future for the moon—and for Shimizu. Continue reading
