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Plane Flies Across The Moon (Dan Kitwood/Getty)Are you throwing a full moon party? This weekend, the moon will be the closest to the Earth as it will get all year long, called perigee by Astonomers. The full moon officially occurs at 9:35 MDT on Saturday night, so it's prime time to host a 'howlingly' fun get together, hopefully we'll have clear skies over Cheyenne to enjoy all the moonshine. Read

Newt Gingrich definitely knows how to play to his audience. In a campaign speech near Cape Canaveral, FL, on Wednesday, Gingrich promised that, as president, he would push to colonize the moon.

NASA is sending a set of robotic twins to the moon to measure lunar gravity while chasing one another around in circles. Thursday and Friday's scheduled launches were delayed by high winds at Cape Canaveral, so NASA will try again on Saturday morning. Their launch window extends into mid-October. The near-identical twins called GRAIL-A and GRAIL-B, (short for Gravity Recovery and Interior Laborato