Universe's 'Dark Ages' May Come to Light with Moon Orbiter

A proposed spacecraft would orbit the moon, sheltering in its shadow to gaze uninterrupted into the early days of the universe. The Dark Ages Radio Explorer (DARE) mission would dodge Earth's noisy, disruptive environment to peer back into the universe's dark ages and cosmic dawn — the mysterious epoch just as the first stars and galaxies began to shine — with a little help from the moon. "The moon, in this case, is just a big blocking disk," said Jack Burns, director of the Lunar Un