Scientists have discovered a lopsided cloud of moon dust hovering over that shining orb in the night sky. Each speck of dust hangs above the moon for only a few minutes before showering back onto ...

We tend to think of the moon as little more than a barren rock, but it’s very, very dusty. However, this dust is a little different than the stuff that collects on our bookshelves. Every time an ...

A less common reply against Moon hoax theorists: the way dust behaves in Apollo videos ... best gear and gadgets you can buy. My academic background is in the History of Science, but I've been ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — The moon is incredibly hot, and also incredibly cold. There’s radiation. A thin atmosphere. No air to breathe. If NASA ever establishes a lunar base — a long-term ...

Right now, a couple of feet above the surface of the Moon, a layer of dust is levitating. This is not a new development. Early photos of the Moon show the same phenomenon. What makes this dust ...

Cartoon showing the interaction of the solid Moon with the particles, fields and dust that make up the lunar exosphere. In the minds of most people, space is a vacuum – a dark, empty expanse of ...

This dust cloud is shown as it crosses the disk of the Sun, viewed from Earth. Streams like this one, including those launched from the Moon’s surface, can act as a temporary sunshade (Ben ...

A new study may explain how dust particles on the moon "levitate" just above the surface, even though there is no wind or flowing water on the moon to kick-up the material. In a recent laboratory ...

A revisited trove of data from NASA's Apollo missions more than 40 years ago is helping scientists answer a lingering lunar question: How fast does moon dust build up? The answer: It would take ...