It looks like a laser is slicing the Moon in half, but it’s actually a high-tech tool used to improve telescope clarity. The ...

will reflect pulses shot from Earth-based Lunar Laser Ranging Observatories (LLROs) to measure the distance between Earth and the moon. This experiment builds on one first performed on the Apollo ...

Apollo astronauts set up mirror arrays, or "retroreflectors," on the moon to accurately ... to reflect very short laser pulses from Earth-based lunar laser ranging observatories, which could ...

A research team has discovered another piece in the puzzle of the formation of the Moon ... a laser. The new measurements show a very high similarity between samples taken from both Earth and ...

that array and two more placed by successive Apollo missions have yielded a wealth of data for NASA's Lunar Laser Ranging experiment, helping scientists detect our moon's liquid core, bolstering ...