/tags/moon moon en-US Copyright Mon, 15 Jul 2024 19:08:57 GMT /2024-07-15/ohio-elementary-teacher-grows-tree-from-seed-that-orbited-the-moon An Ohio elementary school teacher received a seed that orbited the moon on a spacecraft. It's now a five-foot-tall "moon tree" growing near a football field. Mon, 15 Jul 2024 19:08:57 GMT /2024-07-15/ohio-elementary-teacher-grows-tree-from-seed-that-orbited-the-moon Adriana Martinez-Smiley /show/all-sides/2024-02-15/research-shows-the-moon-is-shrinking-in-size Beyond the moon, we’re talking about exoplanets and new research from Ohio State astronomers. Thu, 15 Feb 2024 12:00:00 GMT /show/all-sides/2024-02-15/research-shows-the-moon-is-shrinking-in-size /2023-07-31/npr-news/2023-07-31/if-you-miss-augusts-blue-supermoon-youll-have-to-wait-9-years-for-your-next-chance Two stellar lunar events are happening this August, with a sturgeon supermoon on Aug. 1 and then a rare blue supermoon on Aug. 30. Mon, 31 Jul 2023 18:00:18 GMT /2023-07-31/npr-news/2023-07-31/if-you-miss-augusts-blue-supermoon-youll-have-to-wait-9-years-for-your-next-chance Dustin Jones /2022-06-13/a-strawberry-supermoon-will-rise-on-tuesday-heres-how-to-watch June's full moon gets its nickname from the strawberry harvesting season in the Northeastern U.S. It also happens to be at its closest distance to Earth in its orbit, which makes it a supermoon. Mon, 13 Jun 2022 16:42:55 GMT /2022-06-13/a-strawberry-supermoon-will-rise-on-tuesday-heres-how-to-watch Rachel Treisman /news-partners/2020-10-26/water-on-the-moon-nasa-confirms-water-molecules-on-our-neighbors-sunny-surface The breakthrough suggests that water, vital to life on Earth, could be distributed across more parts of the lunar surface than the ice that has previously been found in cold and dark places. Mon, 26 Oct 2020 19:31:00 GMT /news-partners/2020-10-26/water-on-the-moon-nasa-confirms-water-molecules-on-our-neighbors-sunny-surface Bill Chappell /news/2019-11-25/on-its-way-to-the-moon-nasas-orion-spacecraft-stops-through-mansfield NASA’s Orion spacecraft arrived in Mansfield over the weekend, bringing the organization another step towards its goal of having a manned flight back to… Mon, 25 Nov 2019 18:32:13 GMT /news/2019-11-25/on-its-way-to-the-moon-nasas-orion-spacecraft-stops-through-mansfield Kabir Bhatia /news-partners/2019-11-19/50-years-ago-americans-made-the-2nd-moon-landing-why-doesnt-anyone-remember Everyone knows about Apollo 11, the first moon landing. And about ill-fated Apollo 13. Between them is the forgotten mission — Apollo 12. Tue, 19 Nov 2019 16:14:24 GMT /news-partners/2019-11-19/50-years-ago-americans-made-the-2nd-moon-landing-why-doesnt-anyone-remember Geoff Brumfiel /news-partners/2019-07-15/50-years-after-apollo-11-moon-landing-nasa-sets-its-sights-on-mars As the world looks back at the Apollo mission, NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine looks ahead to the "moon shot" of the modern era: landing a human on Mars. Mon, 15 Jul 2019 20:15:00 GMT /news-partners/2019-07-15/50-years-after-apollo-11-moon-landing-nasa-sets-its-sights-on-mars Mary Louise Kelly /wyso-stories/2019-07-08/dayton-art-institute-moon-museum-exhibit-marks-anniversary-of-apollo-11-landing A new exhibit on display at the Dayton Art Institute pays homage to the Apollo 11 moon landing a half-century ago. The Moon Museum exhibit opened at the... Mon, 08 Jul 2019 22:53:01 GMT /wyso-stories/2019-07-08/dayton-art-institute-moon-museum-exhibit-marks-anniversary-of-apollo-11-landing Jerry Kenney /ideastream/2019-06-10/nasa-chief-glenn-research-center-instrumental-in-return-to-moon NASA’s Glenn Research Center is playing a key role in the mission to take astronauts back to the moon and on to Mars, Administrator Jim Bridenstine said during a visit to Cleveland Monday. “The moon is our proving ground for how do we live and work on another world, so that we can go to Mars,” Bridenstine said. “And the sooner we can prove that out on the moon, the sooner we can move on to Mars.” Mon, 10 Jun 2019 19:05:54 GMT /ideastream/2019-06-10/nasa-chief-glenn-research-center-instrumental-in-return-to-moon Nick Castele