Moon craters formed when meteorites and asteroids slammed into the lunar surface. Like fossils on Earth, they reveal something about the history of the solar system and how planets were formed.
The HUMMER EV is more lunar rover than military machine
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Chief engineer Al Oppenheiser told Fox News Autos that when his team was tasked on April 1, 2019 with designing and engineering an electric truck lineup that would go into production within two and a half years, abou...
Scientists want to build a doomsday vault on the moon
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Engineers want to build an underground lunar ark, filled with millions of seed, spore, sperm and egg samples from Earth's species, hidden in a network of tubes on the moon to provide a genetic backup for the planet ...
In ‘Kid 90,’ Soleil Moon Frye opens a time capsule about being young and famous in the ’90s
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Turns out Soleil Moon Frye -- TV's "Punky Brewster" -- meticulously documented her formative years, recently wading back through home movies, phone messages and photos and assembling them into "Kid 90," a documentar...
China and Russia agree to build joint lunar space station
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China and Russia have agreed to jointly construct a lunar space station that will be "open to all countries," the China National Space Administration said in a statement on Tuesday. The leaders of the two countries'...
Jacksonville Jaguars head coach defends hire of coach previously accused of racism
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New Jacksonville Jaguars head coach Urban Meyer has defended the hiring of a former controversial coach who has previously been accused of racism and bullying. The NFL team announced on Thursday that they had hired...
Astronaut artifacts on moon — like Apollo landers and Neil Armstrong’s bootprint — now protected by US law
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(The Conversation)It's hard to care about bootprints sunk in soil 238,900 miles away as humanity suffers the combined burden of an unforgiving virus and a political unease. But how humans treat those bootprints and ...
Test fire of NASA’s SLS moon rocket ends prematurely
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NASA's Space Launch System rocket ignited its four main engines Saturday on a test stand in Mississippi, but the space agency prematurely ended the test. The hot fire test was the eighth and final test of a series a...
Top White House adviser Hicks no longer works at the White House, a previously planned departure
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Hope Hicks left the White House for the last time on Tuesday, multiple sources familiar with the matter tell CNN, a final departure planned before the January 6 riot at the US Capitol. Hicks was one of President Don...
Pakistani court orders release of men previously convicted in Daniel Pearl murder
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Islamabad A Pakistani court on Thursday ordered the immediate release of four men accused of kidnapping and murdering American journalist Daniel Pearl in 2002, saying their detention was "illegal." The four men, w ...
15 were informed they did not pass the Kentucky bar exam after being previously told they did
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A Kentucky lawmaker is outraged after a scoring error led to 15 people being incorrectly told they had passed the state bar exam. A statement Friday from the Kentucky Office of Bar Admissions said it lamented what ...
NASA begins assembling the rocket for Artemis moon mission
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NASA engineers have begun assembling the massive rocket designed to take the first woman to the moon later this decade as part of the Artemis program. The first booster segment of the Space Launch System (SLS) was s...
Slegs twee lande het gesteentes van die maan versamel. Vir China, dis net die begin
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China het sy Chang'e-5-maansending Dinsdag suksesvol van stapel gestuur om gesteentes van die maan af te versamel -- die eerste poging van enige land sedert die 1970's. Die onbemande Chang'e-5-sonde, vernoem na die mitiese Chinese god ...