Like, I don’t know, what if we just blew up the Moon? For this week’s Giz Asks, Gizmodo spoke to astronomers and planetary scientists about the ramifications of blowing up our beloved satellite.

Here’s how it works. So. You just test-fired the experimental engine on your brand new orbiting space station and, well… it kinda blew up the moon. But somehow that's not even the worst bit of ...

There's a couple of preposterous reports out today alleging that the United States considered blowing up the moon in order to freak out the Soviets during the Cold War. Apparently something called ...

Getty Images University of Iowa math professor Alexander Abian pointing to a full moon in the dark sky above as he discussed his controversial theory of blowing up the moon to becalm Earth’s ...

When blown up, the sodium would glow. “A nuclear bomb on the surface of the moon was definitely one of the stupider things the government could do,” said John Greenewald, Jr., author of the ...

Which leaves the question: Why? Why the obsession with moon catastrophe? I suppose it just comes down to our love of disaster fiction, and that blowing up the moon is a spectacular way to set the ...

It's high time to crank up the volume in space ... but also to provide comfy housing for future moon and Mars explorers. First, however, there's a memory lane trip about this idea worth taking ...

NASA and the USGS partnered up to create the most detailed map of the Moon ever. The map, which is available online, color-codes craters and other geographical features, showing all of the tiny ...