Washington DC (SPX) Jul 31, 2019 - As NASA prepares to land humans on the Moon by 2024 with the Artemis program, commercial companies are developing new technologies, working toward space ventures of their own, and looking to NASA fo
Washington DC (SPX) Jul 31, 2019 - NASA has announced the latest opportunity for industry to participate in its Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) efforts to deliver science and technology payloads to and near the Moon. T
Cologne, Germany (SPX) Jul 31, 2019 - Fifty years after the first landing on the Moon, scientists from the University of Cologne have combined new geochemical information to determine the Moon's age using samples from different Apollo m
Beijing (Sputnik) Jul 29, 2019 - The Chinese moon mission that includes the lander Chang'e-4 and rover Yutu 2 (Jade Rabbit 2) awoke to begin their eighth month of work on the far side of the Moon, the China National Space Administr
New Delhi (IANS) Jul 26, 2019 - India's second moon spacecraft Chandrayaan-2 put into earth orbit on July 22, is scheduled to reach the Moon by August 20, the Indian space agency said on Wednesday. The Indian Space Research
London, UK (The Conversation) Jul 26, 2019 - Half a century after humans first walked on the moon, a number of private companies and nations are planning to build permanent bases on the lunar surface. Despite the technological progress since t
New Delhi (Sputnik) Jul 26, 2019 - India's second Moon Mission, Chandrayaan-2 completed its first orbit manoeuver successfully. The Earthbound manoeuvers of the spacecraft will be executed starting Thursday, and it is scheduled to re
Pasadena CA (JPL) Jul 26, 2019 - Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins departed from the Moon 50 years ago, but one of the experiments they left behind continues to return fresh data to this day: arrays of prisms that ref
Washington (AFP) July 25, 2019 - When Neil Armstrong died in 2012, it was officially put down to complications arising from heart surgery. But seven years on, more murky circumstances have come to light.
Greenbelt MD (SPX) Jul 24, 2019 - The Moon's south pole region is home to some of the most extreme environments in the solar system: it's unimaginably cold, massively cratered, and has areas that are either constantly bathed in sunl
Tokyo, Japan (Sputnik) Jul 24, 2019 - Many major national space agencies are currently looking to utilise the resource of the Moon and its shadowed craters through the development of new technologies. NASA has previously used moon bugg
New Delhi (Sputnik) Jul 23, 2019 - As India continues to celebrate the historic launch of its second Moon Mission, the Chandrayaan-2, experts believe that the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) needs to improve its launchers t
Washington DC (XNA) Jul 23, 2019 - In 1969, when Neil Armstrong became the first person to walk on the moon, the astronomical body was for Chinese just a glowing orb overhead to gaze at and muse about. Now, fifty years later, China h
Washington DC (SPX) Jul 23, 2019 - In a major step toward returning astronauts to the surface of the Moon under the Artemis lunar exploration program and preparing for future missions to Mars, NASA is seeking comments from American c
Paris (ESA) Jul 22, 2019 - Building a lunar base would be one of the next logical steps in our exploration of the Solar System, but the survival of a future crew depends on access to a reliable source of energy. An ESA Discov
Paris (ESA) Jul 22, 2019 - The flag-like Solar Wind Composition Experiment was the first experiment set up by the Apollo 11 astronauts on the lunar surface, and its Principal Investigator was Johannes Geiss, the world-leading
