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Daphnis, measuring just eight kilometres across, orbits within the 42-kilometre wide area known as the Keeler Gap. (Photo: NASA)Science
NASA's Saturn probe beams back image of wavemaker moon Daphnis

The little moon's gravity raises waves in the edges of the gap in both the horizontal and vertical directions.

23 Jan 2017 7:57 AM IST

FILE - In this July 20, 1969 file photo, Apollo 11 astronaut Neil Armstrong, right, trudges across the surface of the moon leaving behind footprints. Moon dust collected by Armstrong during the first lunar landing is being sold at a New York auction. The lunar dust plus some tiny rocks that Armstrong also collected are zipped up in a small bag and are worth an estimated $2 million to $4 million. Theyre just some of the items linked to space travel that Sothebys is auctioning off to mark the 48th anniversary of the first lunar landing on July 20. (AP Photo, File)Science
Moon dust collected by Neil Armstrong to be sold at auction

The lunar dust that Armstrong also collected are zipped up in a small bag and are worth an estimated $2 million to $4...

13 July 2017 7:15 PM IST

FILE - In this July 20, 1969 file photo, Apollo 11 astronaut Neil Armstrong, right, trudges across the surface of the moon leaving behind footprints. Moon dust collected by Armstrong during the first lunar landing is being sold at a New York auction. The lunar dust plus some tiny rocks that Armstrong also collected are zipped up in a small bag and are worth an estimated $2 million to $4 million. Theyre just some of the items linked to space travel that Sothebys is auctioning off to mark the 48th anniversary of the first lunar landing on July 20. (AP Photo, File)Life
Neil Armstrong's moon dust collection to be auctioned

Dust and tiny rocks that famed astronaut collected are worth an estimated $2million to $4million.

13 July 2017 1:21 PM IST

This January 1, 1971 image courtesy of NASA shows Apollo astronaut Eugene A. CernanNewsmakers
Eugene Cernan, last man to walk on moon, dead at 82

Cernan was the spacecraft commander of Apollo 17.

17 Jan 2017 7:29 AM IST

A Long March 7 rocket just before blast off at Wenchang Space Launch Centre on April 20, 2017. Groups of volunteers will live in a sealed lab simulating a lunar-like environment as Beijing prepares for its long-term goal of putting humans on the moon (Photo:AFP)Science
China tests 'Lunar Palace' as it eyes moon mission

The volunteers will live in the sealed lab to simulate a long-term, self-contained space mission with no input from the...

12 May 2017 7:51 AM IST

The moon will be the closest to Earth since 1948 at a distance of 356,509 kilometres (221,524 miles), creating what NASA described as \an extra-supermoon\. (Representational image)Science
Skygazers gear up for extra bright 'supermoon'

The unusually big and bright Moon will appear at its most impressive just as night falls over Asia.

14 Nov 2016 5:18 PM IST

The brightest moon in almost 69 years will be lighting up the sky. (Representational image)Science
Supermoon to light up sky beginning Monday morning

The brightest moon in almost 69 years will be lighting up the sky.

14 Nov 2016 10:27 AM IST

Nasas EM drive propulsion tech will propel us to the Moon in four hours. And to Mars in 70 days.Science
China simulates extended moon stays amid space drive

China is testing the ability for future astronauts to stay on the moon for extended periods

11 May 2017 9:49 AM IST

Mount Etna, in Sicily, is a test bed for the approximately three-foot high, four-wheeled machine ahead of a future mission to the moon. (Photo: screengrab)Science
Lunar robots put to the test on Europe's most active volcano

A robot wheels across a rocky, windswept landscape that looks like the surface of some distant planet from a science...

5 July 2017 7:54 AM IST

NASA has designed a 11.4 centimetres carbon-composite shield, which is designed to withstand temperatures outside the spacecraft of 1,370 degrees Celsius. (Photo: Applied Physics Laboratory)Newsmakers
NASA may send robotic spacecraft to Sun next year

NASA plans to launch the Solar Probe Plus mission to the Sun which is about 149 million kilometres from the Earth.

1 March 2017 12:12 PM IST

The moon will be the closest to Earth since 1948 at a distance of 356,509 kilometres (221,524 miles), creating what NASA described as \an extra-supermoon\. (Representational image)Science
Scientists: Moon over the hill at 4.51 billion years old

The moon formed within 60 million years of the birth of the solar system.

12 Jan 2017 8:03 AM IST

Scientists have found evidence of widespread water in the Moons interior. (Photo: AFP)Science
Moon may have water trapped under its surface: study

The Moon may have huge reservoirs of water trapped under the surface in the form of volcanic 'glass beads'.

27 July 2017 8:58 AM IST

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