If Aliens Attack Us, We Need to Protect the Moon The target making us vulnerable to extraterrestrial assault is 238,900 miles away.

What The Heck Is This Huge Lump On The Moon? Volcanoes capture the imagination like little else on Earth, but did you know that there are also volcanoes on the Moon? Planetary scientists have often thought that the Moon is a “dead” satellite, in that there is no longer any internal heat lef Read more ... t to drive surface processes like earthquakes, mountai…

An Epic View of the Moon Transiting the Earth Just a few days ago I wrote about the DSCOVR satellite delivering gorgeous views of the Earth from space, but it just massively one-upped itself: Here’s an animation of the Moon passing in front of the Earth as seen by the satellite’s Earth Polyc Read more ... hromatic Imaging Camera, or EPIC! And it’s...

The Moon Transits the Earth ... Seen From SPACE! Just a few days ago I wrote about the DSCOVR satellite delivering gorgeous views of the Earth from space, but it just massively one-upped itself: Here’s an animation of the Moon passing in front of the Earth as seen by the satellite’s Earth Polyc Read more ... hromatic Imaging Camera, or EPIC! And it’s...

Moon's Dust Cloud Gives Up Its Secrets Turns out there's more to our moon than meets the eye. New research shows that our natural satellite is engulfed in a huge, lopsided dust cloud that's invisible to the naked eye here on Earth.

Moon's Dust Cloud Gives Up Its Secrets Turns out there's more to our moon than meets the eye. New research shows that our natural satellite is engulfed in a huge, lopsided dust cloud that's invisible to the naked eye here on Earth.

Moon's Dust Cloud Gives Up Its Secrets Turns out there's more to our moon than meets the eye. New research shows that our natural satellite is engulfed in a huge, lopsided dust cloud that's invisible to the naked eye here on Earth.

Gorgeous new map shows the surface of the moon in exquisite detail NASA is gearing up to return humans to the moon, but first they're using their Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter satellite to make incredibly detailed 3-D maps of it.

The Story Behind Earth's "Other" Moon And Its Completely Whacked Orbit We all know and love the moon. We're so assured that we only have one that we don't even give it a specific name. It's just The Moon. But the moon is not the Earth's only natural satellite. Here's what you need to know about 3753 Cruithne and what it Read more ... s weird orbit reveals about the solar system.

Isaac Mizrahi & QVC Host Can't Decide If the Moon Is a Planet or Star Astronomy 101, folks: the Moon is the Earth's only natural satellite. Now, if only someone could'...