The following is an article from Uncle John's...  ...dio and all that -the other one. A WALK ON THE MOON On August 25, 1835, the first of a series of f...  ...stronomy. He'd already identified and named seven moons of Saturn and four of Uranus, and had received nu...  ...evice, Hershel had aimed his new teles...

(YouTube link) I knew this, but only because...  ...recall the approximate the number of miles to the moon , and the circumference of the earth. Those near m...  ...a fast rocket ship takes three days to get to the moon . -via reddit

A collision eons ago between the earth and ano...  ...e atmosphere, some of which eventually became the moon . If this is true, you'd think that the earth and...  ...this is true, you'd think that the earth and the moon would share the same basic materials, but there i...  ...me basic materials, but there is mor...

(vimeo link) In case you couldn't stay up all...  ...ideo of last night's lunar eclipse. Four hours of moonlight are compressed into two minutes. The video was ca...

The only total lunar eclipse of 2010 will be visib...  ...the eclipse will occur when it's daytime and the moon is not above their local horizon. The moon might take on some odd colors during the eclipse....

NPR's Robert Krulwich posted last week about compa...  ...and Buzz Aldrin wandered when they made the first moon landing in 1969. Armstrong's longest, boldest wa...  ...08/131910930/neil-armstrong-talks-about-the-first- moon -walk -Thanks, Marilyn Terrell!

The Apollo 11 astronauts left a variety of ite...  ...ollo 11 astronauts left a variety of items on the moon .  In addition to the flag, the plaque, and the s...

The blogger behind English Russia compiled hig...  ...ssians Tried to Beat Apollo 11 in the Race to the Moon by Crash Landing a Spacecraft

It won't turn you into a werewolf (we don't think)...  ...difference in beer brewed by the light of a full moon . A Belgian brewery is producing a beer called Pai...  ...asting longer in the mouth," he said. The full moon speeds up the fermentation process, shortening it...

In 1970, during the Luna 17 mission, the Soviet sp...  ...d the first ever remote-controlled vehicle on the moon . Lunokhod 1 spent eleven months taking pictures o...  ...khod 1 spent eleven months taking pictures of the moon 's surface, and sent back about 20,000 images. It...