Sure, traipsing about the lunar surface is all fun and games when you've got a gold club and a flag for planting but if you're there to work, those puffy, sausage-fingered space suits are more hindrance than help. Read More >>

Maybe they thought there would be mailboxes on the moon, and that it would be brown. This postcard is a reminder of what an exciting, unknown frontier it was when Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin landed there 43 years ago. Read More >>

Water on the moon is nothing particularly revelatory. But a new study suggests that H20 on the surface of the Earth's nearest neighbor comes from a most unlikely place: the Sun. Read More >>

XKCD's hilarious 'What if?' series answers another farfetched question as only they can. The question: If every person on Earth aimed a laser pointer at the Moon at the same time, would it change colour? The simple answer: not if it's a regular laser. But if the lasers were stronger... we might just die. Read More >>

The only thing better than ice cream is ice cream with a gimmick. And since ice cream trucks are all actually sort of chemist vans in disguise (right?), and those Pikachu-faced Popsicles aren't even that tasty, please direct your attention to this new and very wonderful upgrade, coming straight from the guys who know how to make ice cream best: Häagen-Dazs. Read More >>

It might be all about Mars at the moment, but this stunning interactive panorama, which gives you a 360-degree view of the Tranquility Base where Apollo 11 touched down, shows the Moon in all its glory. Read More >>

He was the first man to walk on the Moon, but Neil Armstrong didn't have any good photos to prove it. He had the camera most of the time, so it was Aldrin who got all the awesome shots. Sure—he was on grainy TV and reflected on Buzz's visor but—except for his footprint—there were no cool shots of Neil. Read More >>

Whether you've seen it, or especially if you somehow haven't, watch this historic footage of Neil Armstrong stepping on the moon and just think about it for a few minutes. That is a man—a real man—and he is stepping on the moon. On the moon. The man may be gone, but his legend is timeless. What have you done today? [YouTube] Read More >>

On July 20, 1969, Neil Armstrong became the first man on the moon. This unassuming, metal box was actually the Westinghouse Apollo Lunar Television Camera that broadcasted his fateful first steps to millions of viewers across the world. Read More >>

Sci-fi fantasies have long predicted that we might live on the moon. But while the lack of atmosphere poses a problem for lunar living, there may be an even bigger sticking point: new research suggests that the moon's surface is itself toxic to humans. Read More >>

A team of astronomers have photographed a new moon in our solar system using the Hubble Space Telescope. The new celestial object is orbiting Pluto. Mark Showalter — from the SETI Institute (Search for ExtraTerrestrial Intelligence) in Mountain View, California — is intrigued that this planet "can have such a complex collection of satellites." Read More >>

Because if NASA were into faking its accomplishments, it would have gotten round to pulling something else impressive out of its ass in the last 40 years. [xkcd] Read More >>

You probably won't ever set foot on the moon, but you can still daydream about space. And you can also lose yourself in Sky & Telescope's lunar globe. Read More >>

With all the noise around SpaceX and Elon Musk, what with the recent successful docking with the ISS and all, it'd be easy to forget there are other players in the burgeoning commercial space race too. Excalibur Almaz is Britain's answer to SpaceX, and it's planning to send men back to the moon and beyond -- and as early as 2015, too. Read More >>

The Large Hadron Collider is a beacon of all that's great about science and engineering — but that doesn't mean it always works properly. In fact, the facility is so sensitive that even the moon's gravitational pull affects how well it operates. Read More >>