ESA’s SMART-1 captured its first close-range images of the Moon this January, during a sequence of test lunar observations from an altitude between 1000 and 5000 kilometres above the lunar surface.

Thanks to measurements by the D-CIXS X-ray spectrometer, ESA’s SMART-1 spacecraft has made the first ever unambiguous remote-sensing detection of calcium on the Moon. SMART-1 is currently performing ...

On Sept. 3, 2006, a European satellite named SMART-1 crashed into the moon! This wasn't actually as disastrous as it sounds, because the spacecraft did it on purpose. SMART-1 launched in 2003 and was ...

About once (sometimes twice) a month, the moon sits in the same spot in the sky as the sun, making for a new moon. This lunar phase goes hand in hand with a dark sky, which you can think of as a blank ...

On the morning of 3 September 2006, a brief flash illuminated the Moon’s ‘Lake of Excellence’ as ESA’s SMART-1 mission met its fate on the dusty surface. Launched in 2003, SMART-1 was the first ...

It's been a long trip, but Europe's first Moon mission is finally nearing its goal. SMART-1, launched by the European Space Agency (ESA) way back on 27 September 2003, will go into orbit around the ...

Figure 1: Demonstration at the NASA Haughton-Mars Project field research site on Devon Island, High Arctic, of how an “Astronaut Smart Glove” might allow future astronauts on the Moon, Mars or beyond ...

December’s full moon will reach peak brightness on Thursday, but it will look striking for the next few nights—especially ...