Getting to the moon takes a lot of small steps, like Europe's new LUNA training facility. But it's not there yet.

What is the moon phase today? Today, Oct. 19, 2024, the moon is 17 days old and is in the Waning Gibbous phase of its lunar cycle. It is 92% illuminated. Moon phases reveal the passage of time in ...

A new mock-up of the moon's surface has opened near the western German city of Cologne. A decade in the making, the LUNA Analog Facility is jointly built by the European Space Agency (ESA ...

This facility, located near Cologne, Germany, features 900 tons of crushed volcanic rock to mimic the lunar surface.

Can you recreate the moon on Earth? The European Space Agency (ESA) and German Aerospace Center are working towards answering that question. The LUNA facility at the European Astronaut Center near ...

Luna (which translates to simply Moon) is a Spanish science fiction thriller film directed by filmmaker Alfonso Cortés-Cavanillas. Because it's an entirely Spanish production made mainly for ...

Gravity simulator: Missing piece of the LUNA puzzle Against ... who fist-bumped the astronauts for the TV cameras and their crews. But it felt so earthly without a moon-like gravity.

A new mock-up of the moon's surface has opened near Cologne in Germany. A decade in the making, the LUNA analog facility is jointly built by The European Space Agency (ESA) and the German ...

A new recreation of the Moon on Earth has sparked hopes of a “European renaissance” in space. Known as LUNA, the futuristic facility was inaugurated today in Cologne, Germany. The ceremony ...

A large, ordinary-looking warehouse in the German city of Cologne is the closest you can get to walking on the Moon -- without leaving Earth. The facility known as LUNA, which was officially ...