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Chemistry World
August 5, 2010
Phillip Broadwith |
Dry Moon discovery Was there water on the Moon when it first formed? US geochemists say the distribution of chlorine isotopes in lunar rocks suggest not, or at least not as much as other recent studies have proposed   |
Geotimes
October 2005
Naomi Lubick |
Moon Soil, Earth Air? Apollo astronauts brought back samples of soil from the moon that contained unexpectedly high levels of nitrogen. New research is shedding light on the anomaly. |
Chemistry World
July 9, 2008
Lewis Brindley |
Water found in Moon rocks US researchers have found water in rocks from the Moon - prompting new questions about its origin. |
Chemistry World
August 28, 2015
Andy Extance |
'Fire fountain' data illuminate lunar history The most precise measurements yet of carbon present in volcanic glass samples found on the Moon suggest that the 'fire fountain' lava explosions that formed them were propelled by carbon monoxide. |
Chemistry World
August 2009
Richard Corfield |
One giant leap NASA's Apollo missions answered many questions about the Moon - and as NASA unveils plans to return, lunar chemistry will again play a prominent role |
Chemistry World
November 3, 2014
Tim Wogan |
Earth ripe for life soon after formation There has been water on Earth since shortly after it formed, say researchers from the US, who compared the deuterium to hydrogen ratios in water on Earth and from the Vesta asteroid belt. |
Geotimes
May 2004
Joshua Chamot |
Big Impact for a Small Moon Mineral Researchers have identified a new mineral from the moon, revealing new details about space weathering processes and offering a better understanding of remote observations of the moon and its brethren. |
Chemistry World
November 10, 2010
Mike Brown |
Sulfur story unearths oxygen environment Earth's atmosphere could have supported complex life 400 million years earlier than thought, according to sulfur isotope signatures found in some of the oldest rocks on Earth. |
Chemistry World
October 6, 2014
Tim Wogan |
Solar wind whips up water on moon The volcanic glasses from the moon's soil let the scientists rule out other ways that water might have been created |
Military & Aerospace Electronics
January 2006 |
NASA's Hubble Looks for Possible Moon Resources NASA is using the unique optical capabilities of the Hubble Space Telescope for a new class of scientific observations of the Earth's Moon. |
Popular Mechanics
November 13, 2009
Jeremy Jacquot |
NASA Confirms There is Water on the Moon--But Where Did It Come From? By obtaining core samples like the ice cores collected by scientists in the Antarctic, it will be possible for scientists to study the climatic record of the moon and draw comparisons with the Earth's. |
Popular Mechanics
September 24, 2009
Joe Pappalardo |
Water Found on Moon These images show a very young lunar crater on the side of the moon that faces away from Earth, as viewed by NASA's Moon Mineralogy Mapper on the Indian Space Research Organization's Chandrayaan-1 spacecraft. |
Popular Mechanics
January 12, 2009
Andrew Moseman |
Moon-Rock Bricks Could Build Lunar Bases and Settlements One of NASA's most ambitious goals is to return to the moon and create a permanent base. Some scientists think that the materials for lunar buildings are on the moon already. |
Geotimes
March 2005
Sara Pratt |
Rocky Debate Over Early Life Scientists fail to replicate a 1996 study on 3.85-billion-year-old rocks that pushed back the date of the earliest evidence for life on Earth by several hundred million years. |
Popular Mechanics
October 2004
Harrison H. Schmitt |
Mining The Moon An Apollo astronaut argues that with its vast stores of nonpolluting nuclear fuel, our lunar neighbor holds the key to Earth's future. |
IEEE Spectrum
June 2009
William Sweet |
Do We Need to Go to the Moon to Get to Mars? Returning to the moon is not all that technically challenging. What's challenging is to make it an international effort that puts behind past grievances and sets the stage for a truly challenging international mission to Mars. |
Geotimes
November 2004
Joseph Richard Gutheinz |
In Search of the Goodwill Moon Rocks: A Personal Account This senior special agent with NASA's Office of Inspector General was to locate and stop the predators who feed on the elderly by selling them bogus moon rocks, often for the victim's life savings. |
Wired
Sarah Douglas |
3 Weird Things About the Moon Three small unknown facts about the moon. |
| AskMen.com |
Water On The Moon The moon isn't the dry dull place it seems. Traces of water lurk in the dirt unseen. |
Chemistry World
September 24, 2009
Rajendrani Mukhopadhyay |
A moist moon Strong evidence for water on the moon's surface has been found by three separate spacecraft-based spectroscopic studies. |
Geotimes
November 2006
Carolyn Gramling |
Airing Out an Early Atmosphere Scientists have generally thought that oxygen was scarce in Earth's atmosphere until about 2.4 billion years ago. Now a study based on new evidence suggests that oxygen may actually have been around longer than previously thought. |
Chemistry World
May 9, 2013
Simon Hadlington |
Mineral dust plays key role in cloud formation, chemistry Mineral dust that swirls up into the atmosphere from Earth's surface plays a far more important role in both cloud formation and cloud chemistry than was previously realized. |
Chemistry World
May 13, 2014
Tim Wogan |
Chemistry calculations reveal Earth's inner core Theoretical calculations have confirmed that the Earth's core contains a significant proportion of oxygen. |
IEEE Spectrum
June 2009
William Stone |
Mining the Moon How the extraction of lunar hydrogen or ice could fuel humanity's expansion into space |
| AskMen.com |
Water On The Moon NASA says a spacecraft that was intentionally crashed into the moon has turned up the best evidence yet of water. |
Geotimes
February 2004
Sara Pratt |
Fire cooks rock clocks A new field study has confirmed what models had previously predicted: The intense heat of wildfires can reset the helium "clock" in rocks, making them appear younger than they are. |
Science News
March 17, 2001 |
TimeLine: March 14, 1931 70 Years Ago in Science News: New Welded Pipe Line Carries Water to San Diego... Age of Earth Determined as Over 2,000,000,000 Years... Moon Lacks Oxygen, Its Light Proves... |
Chemistry World
November 18, 2009
Jon Cartwright |
NASA data point to icy moon Scientists operating NASA's LCROSS (lunar crater observation and sensing satellite) mission, part of which impacted the moon on live television last month, say that shadowy lunar craters almost certainly contain water ice. |
Popular Mechanics
June 2008
Glenn Harlan Reynolds |
Who Owns the Moon? The Case for Lunar Property Rights Can astronauts claim the moon for king and country, as in the Age of Discovery? Are corporations allowed to expropriate its natural resources, and individuals to own its real estate? |
Wired
May 2003
Tom McNichol |
The Race Back to the Moon Astropreneurs are counting down for a return to Apollo country. The first small step: a satellite atlas of the lunar surface. The next giant leap: ice mining, helium farming, and a launchpad to the solar system. |
Popular Mechanics
June 2007
Ian Christe |
The Next Threat to Astronauts: Moon Dust NASA's plans for colonizing the moon by 2024 have hit a problem. Dust particles discovered by the Apollo crew can make their way into moonwalkers' lungs. |
| AskMen.com |
NASA To Bomb The Moon A pair of unmanned science probes will help determine where astronauts could land and set up camp in years to come. |
Geotimes
May 2005
Laura Stafford |
Saturn's New Moon In a small space between Saturn's rings, scientists discovered a previously unknown moon, currently known as S/2005 S1, from the images sent back to Earth from Cassini less than a year after the spacecraft began orbiting Saturn. |
Popular Mechanics
September 2007
Thomas D. Jones |
The Lunar Base: How to Settle the Moon (and Pay for Sleepovers) A four-time Space Shuttle astronaut explains what life will be like on NASA's four-man outpost come 2020, when the anti-Apollo mission will cast off aboard a new rocket and send explorers to hazardous territory. |
Fast Company
Neal Ungerleider |
A Team Competing For Google's Lunar XPrize May Reach Moon By 2017 SpaceIL, a small Israeli nonprofit foundation working in the country's almost non-existent space sector, announced that it plans to conduct the world's first private mission to the moon in 2017. |
Reason
December 2002
Jesse Walker |
The Race to Sell the Moon After years of inattention, the moon will soon be deluged with mechanical visitors from Earth. In June 2003 a California company, TransOrbital, intends to launch the first private mission to the moon. |
Popular Mechanics
May 2007
Alex Hutchinson |
NASA's New Moon Robot: Dig It! The space agency plans to turn lunar dust into air and water for astronauts arriving on the moon. The safest way to do that? With Lockheed Martin's robotic digger and gatherer. |
Popular Mechanics
April 14, 2009
Erin McCarthy |
Questions for Duncan Jones, Director of the Film Moon (With Video!) Where did he get the idea for Moon?... Did he build an actual GERTY robot? Did he base his mining technique on any real-life earth technology?... etc. |
InternetNews
August 20, 2009 |
A Peek at NASA's Faster Connection to the Moon One giant leap for the U.S. space agency: 100Mbps connectivity from the Earth. |
Popular Mechanics
December 23, 2008
Andrew Moseman |
NASA'S Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Is Ready for Its April Launch, but Will It Help the U.S. Return to the Moon? The orbiter is more than just another satellite looking at moon rocks -- this mission is one of the first steps in NASA's mission to return humans to the moon, and use the moon as a springboard to reach beyond. |
Popular Mechanics
June 17, 2009
Joe P. Hasler |
Do We Really Need Another Satellite Orbiting the Moon? It is a tale of two satellites, a shared destination, and two very different missions. |
Popular Mechanics
September 25, 2007
Rand Simberg |
Space Gas Station Would Blast Huge Payloads to the Moon Boeing has unveiled a radical redesign of NASA's plan to return to the lunar surface: save weight by saving gas for an orbital fill-'er-up, then shoot 15 times more material to the moon. |
InternetNews
June 13, 2001 |
Put On Your Crash Helmets The market will soon enter a cycle that has been associated with some of the great crashes of history. |
Scientific American
January 2009
Charles Q. Choi |
Does Dark Matter Encircle Earth? Dark matter might exert measurable effects on the earth, moon and gas giants |
Popular Mechanics
September 11, 2009
Joe Pappalardo |
Why NASA Should Bomb the Moon to Find Water: Analysis NASA today announced the site of a mission that aims to send an empty fuel tank into a lunar crater to assess the amount of frozen water that is kicked up by the impact. |
Science News
August 12, 2000 |
TimeLine: August 9, 1930 A Fish With Hands... Little Eros on Way to Visit Earth... Birthplace of the Moon... |
Geotimes
June 2005
Sara Pratt |
Peaks of Eternal Light on the Moon Planetary scientists have found several spots near the north pole of the moon that receive continuous sunlight during the pole's lunar summer, making them prospective locations for future solar-powered equipment, or even a lunar station. |
Science News
November 12, 2005 |
Moon Zoom A link to access software developed by NASA that allows you to interactively browse three-dimensional images of the moon. |
T.H.E. Journal
January 2007 |
Earth & Moon Pro Pack by e frontier The pack includes 3-D video models of the Earth and moon, the International Space Station, and the Hubble Space Telescope, which work with the company's animation software, Poser. |
Science News
April 24, 2004 |
From the April 21, 1934, Issue Explorations at Ur Finished; Cemetery Found in Pit Bottom... Mass Three Discoveries Close Gap in Elements... Radio "Echoes" From Moon to be Sought by Thousands... |
