Astronomers Paul Davies and Robert Wagner report seeing five UFOs on the moon in mid-April 2012 (NOTE: Subscribers can still listen to this show). They captured images of five UFOs flying over the moon, and disappearing into its dark side. They had proposed a search for alien evidence on the surface of the moon in 2011, and they think that a detailed study of thousands of photographs taken by NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter could reveal evidence of Alien habitation there.
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When US astronauts planted an American flag on the moon, it made other countries nervous because it seemed as if our country might be "claiming" it. Now space lawyers say that the international legal system must be improved and expanded before any products that are space-mined from asteroids are brought back to Earth to sell.

If plans to use robots to mine asteroid succeed, it would create its fair share of confusion about mining rights in space–from who owns what to how business interests beyond Earth’s orbit would be specifically protected.
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Believe it or not, researchers are using a computerized search to look at hundreds of thousands of NASA satellite images of the moon, looking for telltale signs that aliens have visited there. And if they’ve visited our moon, have they visited US?
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The Earth may once have had TWO moons–a smaller one and a larger one–which ended up crashing into each other, producing the single moon we have now. This would explain the mystery of why the near and far sides of the lunar surface are so different.

The near side of the Moon–the one we can see from Earth–is flat and cratered while the rarely-seen far side has tall mountain ranges. The impact would have made the moon lopsided and reoriented it so that one side always faces Earth.

In BBC News, Matt McGrath quotes astronomer Martin Jutzi as saying, "It was a rather gentle collision, slower than the speed of sound–that’s important because it means no huge shocks or melting was produced."
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