In April, an Israeli spacecraft crash-landed on the moon. Turns out this may have some interesting side effects.
Whilst most of the world celebrates 50 years since one of humankind’s most incredible achievements, conspiracy theorists run amok. That reminds us of this Buzz classic.
People have spent so much time figuring out how to get into space that we neglected to make a plan for once we were up there.
Last month SpaceX launched the first private lunar lander, which was funded in part by a South African born billionaire called Morris Kahn.
SpaceX announced on Monday night that they will be taking their first paying passenger on a trip around the moon. The lucky guy? Japanese billionaire Yusaku Maezawa.
Last night was the first full moon in a trilogy of supermoons that are set to appear over the next two months. Let’s take a look at the pictures, which are as gorgeous as you would expect.
Another day, another conspiracy theory, this time referring back to the 1972 moon landing that some people still think was faked. What you say?
Just hours before he was set to speak on plans to colonise Mars, Elon Musk shared a rendering of his rocket sitting on the Moon. Confused? Well, the man can do both, apparently.
Complete lunacy went down in China, when an inflatable moon decided it was more than just prop for a festival. Cue panic on the streets.
There are many brilliant photographs of New York City’s skyline out there, but this one captures something so special it almost looks fake.
If you love a bit of adventure in your life then this documentary series should be right up your alley. The space race has entered a new realm.
What’s better than owning a piece of the moon? Owning a vehicle to drive on it, too.
In the early hours of Monday morning, the moon is set to be show off all its tricks at once, changing colour, growing in size and hiding away from the sun.
So somewhere out there in the constantly expanding universe is a planet called Ceres. Scientists looking to find out more info on the planet have noticed something very much out of the ordinary.
For those of you who were wandering why the sky has been so particularly bright and the tides especially spring-y, it is all because the the incredible supermoon we had on Sunday. This is the closest the moon will get to the earth this year and it is amazing to see…
Well, they don’t want to put solar panels ALL OVER the moon, they just want to to put a cheeky little 400 kilometer-wide belt of solar panels around the moon. Casual.
Arriving a little late for the space-race aren’t we China? While NASA is looking at photos of Mars taken by their Curiosity rover, the China National Space Administration has been sending lunar probes into orbit around the moon… And they’ve announced they’re ready to land an unmanned probe on the surface
Many of us noticed the incredible size of the moon this past weekend. With the moon appearing 14% larger than normal, these are a few pictures from around the world.
Tom Cruise has now done three science fiction films: Minority Report, War of the Worlds and Oblivion. The first two under blockbuster juggernaut, Steven Spielberg, were well-received with Philip K. Dick adaptation Minority Report winning approval from critics and audiences alike, with War of the Worlds making a less convincing case.
People who like Pink Floyd references, rejoice, because NASA’s Gravity Recovery And Interior Laboratory (GRAIL) mission has beamed back its first video of the dark side of the moon. Click through to see what that astronaut that everybody forgets about saw while Armstrong and Aldrin were hogging all the glory.
An asteroid the length of four rugby fields will be speeding through Earth’s solar system tomorrow, at a closer proximity to us than the moon. Nothing of this magnitude has come nearly as close to colliding with our planet for 30 years. But rest assured the asteroid is not going to hit us. Not yet, anyway.