Scientists from NASA and MIT have managed to get a download speed of 19.44Mbps through a laser-powered communication uplink, which is better than the average broadband speed achieved by UK households.
A recently discovered asteroid measuring about 30m across is expected to come within 217,000 miles (350,000km) of Earth tonight, passing between the Earth and the Moon.
An astronomer has caught on video the moment that an asteroid, weighing an estimated 400kg, smashed into the Moon at 38,000 miles per hour (61,150 km/h).
A Japanese engineering firm have announced plans to build a Lunar Ring around the moon’s equator to collect energy from the sun’s rays and “beam” it back to earth.
Colour and black-and-white images of Earth taken by two NASA interplanetary spacecraft on July 19 show our planet and its moon as bright beacons from millions of miles away in space.