New Delhi (Sputnik) Oct 18, 2019 - espite the setback in India's second lunar mission - Chandrayaan-2, the rover of the satellite continues to go around the Moon with all its payloads and is completely functional. The lander failed t
Moscow (Sputnik) Oct 17, 2019 - On Tuesday, a Roscosmos source revealed that the Russian space agency might send an anthropomorphic robot to the Moon as soon as three to four years from now, with its design expected to be based on
Beijing (XNA) Oct 17, 2019 - Space engineers have made a key step in designing a new generation launch vehicle that could help start China's manned lunar exploration program, according to the China Aerospace Science and Technol
Beijing (XNA) Oct 17, 2019 - Chinese first astronaut Yang Liwei said he was looking forward to setting foot on the moon. He made the remarks at the 16th anniversary of his flying into space aboard the Shenzhou-5 spacecraf
Lund, Sweden (SPX) Oct 16, 2019 - GPS tracking data reveals that the foraging activity of the European nightjar more than doubles during moon-lit nights, and the birds then migrate simultaneously about 10 days after the full moon, a
Houston TX (SPX) Oct 16, 2019 - When astronauts are hours away from launching on Artemis missions to the Moon, they'll put on a brightly colored orange spacesuit called the Orion Crew Survival System (OCSS) suit. It is designed fo
London, UK (SPX) Oct 14, 2019 - At an award-winning and mind-blowing festival of discoveries and ideas - New Scientist Live, CEO and Founder of UK startup Spacebit, Pavlo Tanasyuk announced the first commercial UK mission to The M
Providence RI (SPX) Oct 11, 2019 - The discovery of ice deposits in craters scattered across the Moon's south pole has helped to renew interest in exploring the lunar surface, but no one is sure exactly when or how that ice got there
Greenbelt MD (SPX) Oct 08, 2019 - By 2024, NASA will land astronauts, including the first woman and next man, on the Moon as part of the Artemis lunar exploration program. This won't be the first time NASA takes the name Artemis to
Washington DC (SPX) Oct 07, 2019 - When the first woman and next man step foot on the Moon in 2024, they will be wearing the next generation of spacesuits designed to give astronauts enhanced mobility to accomplish their exploration
New Delhi (Sputnik) Oct 07, 2019 - Even though India's second Lunar Mission, Chandrayaan-2, failed to soft-land on the surface of the Moon, the country's space agency, the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) was able to save th
Washington DC (SPX) Oct 02, 2019 - NASA is seeking proposals for human lunar landing systems designed and developed by American companies for the Artemis program, which includes sending the first woman and next man to the surface of
Paris (Sputnik) Oct 02, 2019 - A key step in the first-ever European manned lunar mission for the European Space Agency (ESA) will be the establishment of an international space station in lunar orbit - to be dubbed the 'Gateway'
Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Sep 25, 2019 - NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine met with Hiroshi Yamakawa, president of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), on Sept. 24 in Tokyo to discuss future bilateral cooperation and JAXA's pote
Beijing, China (SPX) Sep 25, 2019 - In January of this year, China's Chang'E-4 - the fourth version of a lunar spacecraft named for the Chinese goddess of the Moon - landed on the far side of the Moon. Due to the location of the landi
Darmstadt, Germany (ESA) Sep 25, 2019 - As Europe sleeps, in the early hours of Wednesday 25 September, a small rover in Canada will explore a mock lunar surface, controlled from ESA's ESOC operations centre in Germany. The live experime
