NASA has announced that they have discovered water on the Moon. The creative minds at Google had to celebrate this news with a special Google doodle for the discovery of water on the Moon

Scientists hoped the LCross mission on October 9, 2009 would help them verify that there is water on the moon. The LCROSS Centaur and Spacecraft impacted the moon at approximately 7:30 a.m on October 9 and today NASA reported that they have confirmed that water exists on the moon.

Early this morning, NASA crashed two spacecraft into the surface of the moon in the search of water on the Earth's natural satellite. The Internet is buzzing today with reports of blowing up the moon or bombing the moon.The LCROSS Centaur and Spacecraft impacted the moon at approximately 7:30 a.m. EDT. A report on the initial data will be revealed at the Post Impact News Conference at 10:00 a.m. EDT on NASA TV.

If you ever watched the old series "Space: 1999," this is somewhat reminiscent of that corny science fiction show. NASA has planned for some time to slam two spacecraft into the moon in an attempt the find water, and they have released animation of what the "NASA moon bombing," scheduled for Friday, will look like.

When Apollo astronauts returned from the moon 40 years ago, they brought back souvenirs in the form of moon rocks to be used for scientific analysis, and one of the chief questions was whether there was water to be found in the lunar rocks and soils.

As part of NASA’s plan to revisit the Moon, Marshall Space Flight Center Engineers oversaw the freefall test of a 50,000-pound simulated rocket booster on the Arizona desert by U.S. Air Force test pilots. The Ares booster recovery parachute system successfully stopped the jettisoned booster from crashing. Testing for all components will continue throughout 2009, each with greater payload weight.

Moons outside our Solar System with the potential to support life have just become much easier to detect, thanks to research by an astronomer at University College London (UCL).

Yesterday, following a fifth orbit-raising manoeuvre, the Chandrayaan-1 spacecraft successfully settled into a trajectory that will take it to the Moon.

The Apollo Moon missions of 1969-1972 all share a dirty secret. “The major issue the Apollo astronauts pointed out was dust, dust, dust,” says Professor Larry Taylor, Director of the Planetary Geosciences Institute at the University of Tennessee.

The same Ohio State University researcher who is helping rovers navigate on Mars is leading a new effort to help humans navigate on the moon