moon

"I have Sir Isaac Newton's personal assurance that it did indeed hit the moon, there's no way for it to have escaped," Jonathan McDowell, an astrophysicist and space analyst, told AFP.

From Barron's ● Aug. 5, 2026

On Tuesday, he said that many robots will need to be deployed to help build future factories and power facilities on the moon.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 5, 2026

"No one has physically measured the ice on the moon yet, but we now have a prediction for what to look out for. That's an important first step."

From Science Daily ● Aug. 3, 2026

A solar eclipse occurs when the moon moves between the sun and Earth, blocking the sun's light either partially or fully when viewed from the UK.

From BBC ● Jul. 31, 2026

The river eyes lay in Torak’s palm in a nest of green mud, glowing faintly, like the moon on a misty night.

From "Wolf Brother" by Michelle Paver

The second of three summer full moons is set to rise above the West Country on Wednesday night.

From BBC ● Jul. 28, 2026

Jupiter and Saturn are the two largest planets in the Solar System, and both are surrounded by enormous families of moons.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 27, 2026

Symbols that the pioneering assemblage artist has been “remixing” for more than seven decades — stars, moons, eyes, hands — emerge in vibrant washes of magenta, teal and her favored crepuscular blues.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 15, 2026

For four-day periods every year from March to August, legions of small, silver fish called grunion ride the waves ashore for mating rituals, beginning on the nights of the full and new moons.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 14, 2026

The telescope, for instance, had given scientists the ability to find moons and stars that had never been observed before.

From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife

Perkins: What’s so great about this is seeing someone who looks like Lakeith being mooned after.

From Slate ● Nov. 20, 2019

She and Tom Arnold had mooned the crowd at a World Series game to show off their matching tattoos.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 10, 2018

Buffy The Vampire Slayer and its spin-off, Angel, were cult classics, the just-home-from-school fantasy shows that made vampires sexy long before R-Patz and Kristen mooned at each other in Twilight.

From The Guardian ● Jun. 2, 2013

So far, she seems mild-mannered compared with McQueen, who once mooned the crowd, in lieu of a bow, at the end of his runway show.

From Seattle Times ● May 9, 2011

Eddie mooned on down to La Ida and talked to his friend the bartender.

From "Cannery Row" by John Steinbeck

Bogotá’s unorthodox mayor, Antanas Mockus—who rose to fame after mooning student protesters and deployed mimes to control traffic—viewed the activity as a gambit “to achieve self-regulation in the behavior among citizens.”

From Slate ● Dec. 22, 2024

Would there be a ShyBelligerent if he still were mooning around Compton?

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 28, 2024

To say that “a computer understands” is like saying that your car is losing its sense of humor or mooning over an old girlfriend.

From Washington Post ● Apr. 24, 2023

Footage captured the moment a terminally ill man was arrested by police officers after "mooning" at speed camera van.

From BBC ● Nov. 10, 2021

“You may look and then you must go and not come back. I cannot have you in my shop every day mooning over what you have lost.”

From "The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane" by Kate DiCamillo