The University of Arizona has been working for years with the U.S. Air Force's on 'space domain awareness'. Now they are partnering to create order in impending lunar orbit traffic. Read more»
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Elisabetta "Betty" Pierazzo, a leading expert in the modeling of impact crater formation who worked at the Planetary Science Institute in Tucson, now has one of those craters named after her. Pierazzo Crater, on the far side of the moon, is nine kilometers wide, with debris spread more than 450 kilometers from its rim. Read more»
The first lunar eclipse of 2014 — known as a "blood moon" — cast a red hue in the sky Monday night. Read more»
Take a walk in the moonlight Saturday and you'll soak up 30 percent more moonbeam than normal, according to information provided by NASA on this weekend's "supermoon" event. Read more»
The last man to walk on the moon and the first space shuttle pilot are among the eight space leaders who endorsed Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney on Friday. Read more» 1
As NASA plans for the next U.S. footprints on the moon and eventually its first on Mars, Arizona’s evolution into a center of space research means it will have a role even bigger than just a place to study geology. Read more»