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Mission control

Space

Go at throttle up: The secret world of NASA’s mission control

A striking documentary movie, Mission Control: The unsung heroes of Apollo, shines a spotlight behind the scenes of NASA’s Apollo moon missions

Culture

Flamsteed crater (bottom) with ring-like hint of another bigger impact

Space

Moon's hidden craters detected by gravity mapper

News

Trinity nuclear bomb test

Space

Glass from nuclear test site shows the moon was born dry

News

Oxygen ions sent from Earth have been spotted on the moon

Space

Oxygen ions sent from Earth have been spotted on the moon

News

Apollo 17 lunar buggy

Space

Private moon mission plans to revisit Apollo 17 landing site

News

Animation showing the before and after of an impact crater

Space

The moon has hundreds more craters than we thought

News

The dark side of the moon

Space

Tiny lightning bolt explosions can vaporise the moon’s thin soil

News

Roy Lichtenstein – Eclipse of the sun (1975)

Space

Solar eclipses: heaven-sent chance to mix art and science

Features

The Yutu rover on the surface of the moon

Space

China's Jade Rabbit moon rover dead after 31 months on surface

News

Composite showing full, partly eclipsed and totally eclipsed reddish moon

Earth

Volcano in Chile dampened lunar eclipse's glory

Last September's lunar eclipse was a third dimmer than expected, and a relatively small volcano could be to blame

News

Space

Mars moons may have formed after collision with Pluto-like world

News

Space

Moon’s lack of water down to ancient shift in its spin axis

News

Space

NASA CubeSat missions will pave way for human space flight

News

Space

Solar system mysteries: Could we live on the moon?

Features