Read article: Money from the Moon
Money from the Moon
It might sound like a "lunatic" idea, but James McKenzie argues that there are genuine business opportunities in lunar exploration – just not the ones you might expect
Read article: Money from the Moon
Read article: How high the Moon
How high the Moon
Half a century after the historic Apollo 11 landing on 20 July 1969, Robert P Crease explains why the mission’s lunar laser ranging experiment is alive and well
Read article: Race to lunar space
Race to lunar space
Andrew Glester reviews Apollo 11: the Inside Story by David Whitehouse
Read article: Exploring the far side
Exploring the far side
Ling Xin examines how the Chinese mission Chang’e-4 could reveal the Moon's far-side secrets
Read article: The new race to the Moon
The new race to the Moon
A string of upcoming lunar missions will yield many scientific breakthroughs, as James Dacey discovers
Read article: Noise-reducing coating helps gravitational wave detection
Noise-reducing coating helps gravitational wave detection
A coating made from SiO2:HfO2 may help improve the sensitivity of gravitational wave detectors by a factor of 100 at low frequencies
Read article: Protest-hit Thirty Meter Telescope receives construction go-ahead in Hawaii
Protest-hit Thirty Meter Telescope receives construction go-ahead in Hawaii
Giant telescope wins a formal "notice to proceed" but protesters warn they will not back down
Read article: Weighing water from space
Weighing water from space
Marric Stephens explains how an update to a mission to monitor fresh water is also helping with plans for a space-based gravitational-wave detector
Read article: Astronomers eye-up an orbiting array for imaging Milky Way’s supermassive black hole
Astronomers eye-up an orbiting array for imaging Milky Way’s supermassive black hole
A space-based imaging system could deliver a five-fold improvement in resolution over the Event Horizon Telescope
Read article: Radioactive glaciers, Mars methane mystery, and more on the black-hole images
Radioactive glaciers, Mars methane mystery, and more on the black-hole images
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