Beijing (XNA) Jul 11, 2019 - Both the lander and the rover of the Chang'e-4 probe switched to dormant mode for the lunar night on the far side of the moon on Tuesday morning (Beijing Time). The scientific instruments on t
Davis CA (SPX) Jul 11, 2019 - As our solar system was forming nearly four and a half billion years ago, a planet-sized object struck the early Earth, leading to the formation of the moon, possibly from a hot, spinning cloud of r
Paris (AFP) July 8, 2019 - It was the biggest piece of supposed fake news before the term fake news was even invented.
Paris (AFP) July 8, 2019 - By landing on the Moon in 1969, Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin arrived at a place which, up until that point, had been the stuff of fantasy.
Pittsburgh PA (SPX) Jul 08, 2019 - Astrobotic has been selected by NASA's Lunar Surface and Instrumentation and Technology Payload (LSITP) program to develop an autonomous lunar rover with its partner, Carnegie Mellon University.
Tucson AZ (SPX) Jul 03, 2019 - A new spacecraft-mounted camera system funded by NASA is poised to return the first high-resolution video of a landing plume as it lands on the Moon. The Heimdall camera system project, headed
Berkeley CA (SPX) Jul 03, 2019 - Scavenging spare parts and grabbing off-the-shelf hardware, University of California, Berkeley, space scientists are in a sprint to build scientific instruments that will land on the Moon in a mere
Washington (AFP) July 2, 2019 - NASA carried out a successful test Tuesday of a launch-abort system for the Orion capsule designed to take US astronauts to the Moon.
New York (AFP) July 1, 2019 - Some 400 years of depictions of the Moon, particularly via photography, are going on display at New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art ahead of the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 landing.
Chantilly, United States (AFP) June 29, 2019 - Lying on a workshop counter that is closed to the public at the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum's annex near Washington Dulles airport, Neil Armstrong's gloves look almost as good as new.
Beijing (XNA) Jun 28, 2019 - The lander and the rover of the Chang'e-4 probe have resumed work for the seventh lunar day on the far side of the moon after sleeping during the extreme cold night. The lander woke up at 9:
Pasadena CA (SPX) Jun 21, 2019 - NASA has selected a Caltech-led mission to send a small satellite to quantify and study water on the Moon. The project is one of three finalists selected from more than a dozen proposals for small s
Paris (ESA) Jun 21, 2019 - With its rocky, sandy terrain and buoyant salt water, the bottom of the ocean floor has more in common with the lunar surface than you might imagine. That is why this week two members of NASA missio
Tucson AZ (SPX) Jun 19, 2019 - On July 20, 1969, as Apollo astronaut Neil Armstrong climbed down the ladder from the Eagle lunar landing module, he found himself surrounded by a sea of grey - an expanse of powdery dust no human
Houston TX (SPX) Jun 19, 2019 - The primary mission of the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, or LRO, managed by NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, located in Greenbelt, Maryland, was to measure the entire lunar surface to create a hi
Greenbelt MD (SPX) Jun 19, 2019 - June 18, 2019, marks 10 years since the launch of the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO). Its contributions to the fields of lunar science and exploration are unmatched: it has provided the largest
