Tag Archives: moons

[ad_1] In a Chinese city, expensive street lights may soon be a thing of the past. By 2020, the Tian Fu Space Science Society plans to launch an artificial moon to illuminate …

[ad_1] Photo of Bob Familar / Flickr Can a moon have a moon? It seems like the question of a precocious kindergarten or a smashed student may have thought about a moment …

[ad_1] Artificial intelligence in space exploration is gaining ground. In the next few years, new missions may be turbo-charged by artificial intelligence as we move towards comets, moons and planets and explore …

[ad_1] Astronomers believe that it is possible for moons to have their own mini-moon – but the scientific suggestion that they should be called "Moonmoons" is not going very well among those …

[ad_1] I am asked many questions from people curious about the Universe. Some of them are more common than others. Are black holes real? (yes) Do I believe in extraterrestrials and flying …

[ad_1] Sure, it could be called a "submoon." But does not "moonmoon" have a nice ring to it, too? Astronomers Juna Kollmeier and Sean Raymond, from the Observatories of the Carnegie Institution …

[ad_1] Have you ever looked up at the night sky, looked up at the moon and wondered if she could have her own moon? While you probably did not do it, a …

[ad_1] Artist's rendering of the Pluto-Charon dwarf planet system, which is not quite a system where moons have moons.Graphic: Kevin McGill (Flickr) Inquisitive kids ask some questions that parents just can not …

[ad_1] A number of announcements have been made this week about the exploration of our moon and the moons of Mars and the possible discovery of the first moon outside our solar …

[ad_1] Phobos is the largest of the two small moons of Mars and bears the scars of millennia of small impacts. Credit: NASA / JPL-Caltech / University of Arizona Scientists have struggled …