Scientists think a small rock discovered near Earth last August was hurled into space by an ancient impact on the lunar ...

half in the real world—to measure whether the virtual moon dust behaved the same as its real-world counterpart." As this model of regolith is promising for being accurate, scalable and ...

Using magnetic levitation technology, the realistic globe will project ... The area of illumination continues to increase. More than half of the moon's face appears to be getting sunlight.

The phases exist because of how the moon orbits Earth. "Sunlight illuminates half the Earth and half the moon at all times," NASA says in an explainer. "But as the moon orbits around the Earth ...

Visit the homepage for more information. A: The so called Luna, half moon, or sickle of the moon, also waning and waxing moon, is a sign of fertility, related to life and death, and thus a popular ...