Longtime educator and East Hills resident Roseanne Frank has spent her life immersed in the power of storytelling and now, ...

While the first books focus on Mars, we see glimpses of the role the Earth’s Moon, Luna, plays. Luna is the capital planet and the seat of power for the solar system’s ruling family, House Lune.

In this appealingly illustrated book of hope and affirmations from McNeill’s Instagram of the same name, a young fox talks to the wise old moon about the things that truly matter.

At the moon’s poles, even small variations in topography can make for significant differences in surface temperature—as demonstrated neatly by Chandrayaan-3’s landing site measurements.

And contrary to what Apollo photos suggest, the moon’s surface sparkles with technicolor hues, astronauts reported. “The Moon was not gray, but a landscape flecked with color,” Boyle writes.

Apart from the Old Man Under the Moon, another divine matchmaker in Chinese mythology is the Rabbit God, who has been worshiped as far back as the 18th century as a god of love between men.