The 2020s have already seen many lunar landing attempts, although several of them have crashed or toppled over.With all the excitement surrounding the prospect of humans returning to the Moon ...

So as the Moon circles our planet, the amount of the Sun’s light striking the Moon’s nearside changes, causing varying portions of its face to be illuminated from our point of view.

Research has for the first time statistically proven that the earliest standing stone monuments of Britain, the great circles, were constructed specifically in line with the movements of the Sun ...

Unlike the Earth, the Moon is not tilted relative to its path around the Sun. As a result, the Sun circles the horizon near the poles, almost never setting on some crater rims. There, the ...

Archaeo-astronomy steps out from shadows of the past Date: June 23, 2014 Source: Royal Astronomical Society (RAS) Summary: From the ‘Crystal Pathway’ that links stone circles on Cornwall’s ...

Moon matters to keep in mind this month. Sept. 16-17: The moon visits the big planets + space station flybys. Each month, as the moon circles the Earth, it eventually passes near all the planets.

The Moon still has much to tell us about the early solar system. Encouragingly, it also has scientific value as a platform for observational astronomy.

"There's more to archaeo-astronomy than Stonehenge," says Dr Daniel Brown of Nottingham Trent University, who will present updates on his work on the 4000-year-old astronomically aligned standing ...

Examining the oldest great stone circles built in Scotland (Callanish, on the Isle of Lewis, and Stenness, Isle of Orkney — both predating Stonehenge’s standing stones by about 500 years), the ...

The moon’s low gravity may also enable the construction of much larger telescopes than is feasible for free-flying satellites. These considerations have led the astronomer Jean-Pierre Maillard to ...

University of Adelaide research has for the first time statistically proven that the earliest standing stone monuments of Britain, the great circles, were constructed specifically in line with the ...