One of the original designers of a pioneering Apollo Moon experiment is leading an effort to create an upgraded version for future lunar landing missions. A team under Doug Currie, Professor Emeritus ...

Dozens of times over the last decade NASA scientists have launched laser beams at a reflector the size of a paperback novel about 240,000 miles (385,000 kilometers) away from Earth. They announced ...

An epic lunar laser experiment is still going strong, five decades after the Apollo astronauts set it up on the surface. The moonwalking crew of Apollo 11, which landed on the moon 50 years ago this ...

In a world first, Chinese scientists have successfully carried out satellite laser ranging between Earth and the Moon in broad daylight. This achievement marks a monumental leap in space exploration, ...

Thirty-five years after Moon-walking astronauts placed special reflectors on the lunar surface, scientists have used these devices to test Albert Einstein’s general theory of relativity to ...

Lick Observatory, Calif.—It took 12 frustrating days and sleepless nights for the crew stationed on top of Mt. Hamilton, just outside San Jose, but finally at 2:00 a.m. August 1 the Laser Ranging ...

Middle Tennessee State University Physics and Astronomy lecturer Gregg McPherson will be featured in the next Star Party presentation that’s free and open to the public. McPherson will present “Shoot ...