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This illustration provided by Dan Durda shows the exoplanet Kepler-1625b with a hypothesized moon. On Thursday, Oct. 4, 2018, two Columbia University researchers reported their results that the potential exomoon would be the size of Neptune or Uranus. The exoplanet, about 8,000 light-years away, is as big as Jupiter. (Dan Durda via AP)
October 4, 2018, 6:23 am
Have astronomers found 1st moon outside our solar system?
Columbia University researchers believe they have discovered a large moon, about the size of Neptune or Uranus, orbiting a planet 8,000 light-years away from Earth
By Marcia Dunn
Gazing at the stars from the vantage point of virtual reality goggles and 3D screens are part of World Space Week activities sponsored by the Israel Space Agency (Courtesy Israel Space Agency)
October 3, 2018, 5:30 pm
An encounter with the final frontier during World Space Week
Israel Space Agency brings lectures, stargazing, space escape rooms and life on Mars to locations around Israel
By Jessica Steinberg
Opher Doron, general manager of Israel Aerospace Industries' space division, speaks beside the SpaceIL lunar module, in a special "clean room" where the space craft is being developed, during a press tour of their facility near Tel Aviv, Israel, July 10, 2018. (AP Photo/Ilan Ben Zion)
October 3, 2018, 5:02 pm
NASA to help Israeli firm launch first moon mission
US space agency will provide laser reflector to guide unmanned spacecraft, which is scheduled to land in February
By TOI staff
Mission Commander Neil Armstrong documented the lunar mission and snapped this image of Lunar Module Pilot Buzz Aldrin at Tranquility Base, July 20, 1969. (NASA)
October 3, 2018, 3:23 am
Space thriller launches in advance of 50th anniversary of first moon landing
Former organized crime prosecutor Tom Seigel’s debut novel ‘The Astronaut’s Son’ is a mystery with a moral — about history and its ripple effect
By Renee Ghert-Zand
This picture taken on July 27, 2018 shows the moon during the total lunar eclipse, in the Israeli Mediterranean coastal city of Netanya. ( AFP PHOTO / JACK GUEZ)
July 27, 2018, 10:36 pm
World looks to the skies for century’s longest ‘blood moon’ eclipse
Event coincides with Mars’ closest approach in 15 years, to stargazers’ delight
By Pascale MOLLARD
The 'super blue blood moon' is seen over Los Angeles, California, January 31, 2018. (AFP Photo/Robyn Beck)
July 24, 2018, 11:19 am
Century’s longest ‘blood moon’ stokes doomsday fears
Celestial event triggers apocalyptic predictions from Evangelicals linking the lunar eclipse to the US Jerusalem embassy move
By TOI staff
Israeli billionaire and investor Morris Kahn (L) speaks to journalists in front of a Israeli Aerospace Industries spacecraft during a press conference to announce its launch to the moon, in Yehud, near Tel Aviv, on July 10, 2018. (AFP PHOTO / THOMAS COEX)
July 10, 2018, 1:03 pm
Israeli spacecraft aims for historic moon landing… within months
SpaceIL’s unmanned probe will blast off before year’s end; touchdown scheduled for February 13, 2019, when it will unfurl national flag, conduct experiments
By Stuart Winer and Shoshanna Solomon
A partially eclipsed super blue blood moon sets behind the Golden Gate Bridge on January 31, 2018 in San Francisco, California (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images/AFP
February 1, 2018, 5:29 am
A ‘super blue blood Moon’ rises
From LA to the slopes of a Philippine volcano, stargazers worldwide enjoy rare celestial event
By Frederic Brown, Kerry SHERIDAN and Ayee Macaraig
This June 28, 2009 image provided by NASA, taken by the international Cassini spacecraft, shows Enceladus, one of Saturn's moons. (AP Photo/NASA)
April 14, 2017, 12:32 am
Ocean world near Saturn a top contender for life beyond Earth
Cassini spacecraft on final stage of mission discovers hydrogen in vapor plumes rising from the surface of Enceladus
By Marcia Dunn
In this Thursday, Dec. 24, 2015, file photo, a nearly-full moon is seen among Christmas lights at a holiday display near Lenexa, Kan. (AP/Charlie Riedel, File)
January 10, 2017, 3:22 am
Our moon may have formed from multiple small ones, Israeli research shows
Technion scientists say series of cosmic collisions may have led to mini-moons that, over millions of years, clumped together to make one large one
By Maricia Dunn
The planet Mars, as seen by the Hubble Space Telescope in 2003 (NASA, ESA, and The Hubble Heritage Team / STScI/AURA)
December 27, 2016, 10:06 am
China plans to land probes on Mars, dark side of moon
Beijing says it aims to use space for peaceful purposes, guarantee national security, conduct scientific research
By LOUISE WATT
The supermoon rises over the Dormition Abbey in Jerusalem's Old City on November 14, 2016. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90
November 14, 2016, 8:46 pm
Sky gazers around the world marvel at ‘supermoon’
Earth’s satellite appears bigger and brighter Monday night than at any time since 1948
By TOI staff and AP
A commerical jet flies in front of the moon on its approach to Heathrow airport in west London on November 13, 2016. (AFP/Adrian DENNIS)
November 14, 2016, 9:43 am
Largest supermoon since 1948 to light up Monday evening sky
Moon gazers in Israel advised to look heavenward at about 5 p.m. as lunar orb makes closest pass to Earth in over 68 years
By AP and TOI staff
A swollen "supermoon" is seen during the stages of a total eclipse in Trébons sur la Grasse, southern France, early on September 28, 2015. (AFP Photo/Remy Gabalda)
October 13, 2016, 1:45 am
A facelift for the Moon every 81,000 years
Scientists find 180 new impact craters each year, their creation causing a turnover of lunar surface 100 times faster than predicted
By AFP
The moon rises behind the star of a Christmas Tree in central Rome on December 22, 2015. (AFP/TIZIANA FABI)
January 16, 2016, 9:24 am
European space boss has ‘crazy’ Moon Village plan
Jan Woerner says a lunar base is being widely discussed as the end of the International Space Station looms large; idea raised at talks in US, Israel
By Mariëtte Le Roux
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