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Scientists have found evidence of widespread water in the Moons interior. (Photo: AFP)

Moon could be wetter than thought, say scientists

The Moon, long thought to be a dry, inhospitable orb, hosts surprisingly large sub-surface water reserves.

25 July 2017 2:17 AM

NASAs ISS cameras stream a real-time live view of the Earth from multiple cameras onboard. Click on the video below to see the Earth from the ISS in real time.

NASA's Moon orbiter camera survived meteoroid hit

The camera captures moderate resolution images using filters to provide information about the properties and colour of...

27 May 2017 9:59 AM

The Apollo 11 Contingency Lunar Sample Return Bag, used by Neil Armstrong on Apollo 11 to bring back the very first pieces of the moon ever collected, is displayed during a media preview for Space Exploration auction in New York. (Photo: AFP)

Neil Armstrong's moon bag sells for $1.8mn in New York

The bag fell short of Sotheby's pre-sale estimate of $2-4 million.

21 July 2017 2:53 AM

This is a map showing the permanently shadowed regions (blue) that cover about three percent of the moons south pole. (Photo: NASA)

Solar storms trigger sparks, melt soil on Moon: NASA

The Moon has almost no atmosphere, so its surface is exposed to the harsh space environment.

9 Jan 2017 2:21 AM

He was a founder of payments company PayPal, electric carmaker Tesla Motors and SpaceX, maker and launcher of rockets and spacecraft. (Photo:AFP)

Elon Musk: Tech dreamer reaching for sun, moon and stars

In a sector where entrepreneurs often speak of 'moonshots,' Musk is one of the biggest dreamers.

6 March 2017 2:25 AM

Scientists have found evidence of widespread water in the Moons interior. (Photo: AFP)

First exomoon may have been discovered

A second, smaller dip that appears ahead of or behind the planet could reveal a moon.

28 July 2017 3:39 PM

The combined power of three space observatories has helped uncover the moon orbiting the dwarf planet 2007 OR10 in the Kuiper Belt, a realm of icy debris left over from our solar systems formation 4.6 billion years ago. (Photo: NASA)

Moon orbiting solar system's 3rd largest dwarf planet found

With this discovery, most of the known dwarf planets in the Kuiper Belt larger than 965 kilometres across have...

20 May 2017 2:54 AM

Countries that use Coordinated Universal Time several West African nations, Britain, Ireland and Iceland will add the leap second during the midnight countdown to 2017, making the years final minute 61 seconds long. (Photo: NASA)

5. 4. 3. 2. 1. 1... An extra second to see out 2016

This extra second, or leap second, makes it possible to align astronomical time, which is irregular and determined by...

29 Dec 2016 2:27 AM

A trail of smoke can be seen from the 2013 eruption of the Pavlof volcano, which spewed an ash cloud 20,000 feet into the atmosphere that traveled southeastward over the North Pacific Ocean. The volcanos that may have contributed to snowball Earth spanned almost 2000 miles and erupted continuously for years. (Image courtesy of NASA)

What caused 'snowball Earth'?

A perfect storm of fire and ice may have led to snowball Earth.

15 March 2017 8:48 AM

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'Lost' Chandrayaan-1 found orbiting Moon: NASA

Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) lost communication with Chandrayaan-1 on August 29, 2009, almost a year after...

10 March 2017 10:14 AM

Phobos, the largest and closest of two moons circling the Red Plane (Photo: AFP)

France, Japan aim for Martian Moon

Phobos, the largest and closes of the two moons circling around Mar's moon, is 17kms in diameter

14 April 2017 2:21 AM

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket attached to the cargo-only capsule called Dragon lays on its side in 2012 in Cape Canaveral, Florida. (Photo: AFP)

SpaceX says it will fly 2 people to moon next year

Two people who know one another approached the company about sending them on a weeklong flight just beyond the moon.

28 Feb 2017 2:33 AM