Washington DC (SPX) May 16, 2019 - The photo above shows the landing site of the Israeli Beresheet spacecraft on a region of the Moon called Sea of Serenity, or Mare Serenitatis in Latin. On April 11, 2019, SpaceIL, a non-profi
Beijing, China (SPX) May 16, 2019 - A lunar lander named for the Chinese goddess of the moon may have lessened the mystery of the far side of the moon. The fourth probe of Chang'E (CE-4) was the first mission to land on the far side o
Washington (AFP) May 14, 2019 - NASA's next mission to the Moon will be called Artemis, the US space agency announced Monday, though it's still looking for the money to make the journey happen by its accelerated 2024 deadline.
Greenbelt MD (SPX) May 14, 2019 - The Moon is shrinking as its interior cools, getting more than about 150 feet (50 meters) skinnier over the last several hundred million years. Just as a grape wrinkles as it shrinks down to a raisi
Pasadena CA (JPL) May 14, 2019 - Billions of years ago, Earth's Moon formed vast basins called mare (pronounced MAR-ay)*. Scientists have long assumed these basins were dead, still places where the last geologic activity occurred
Naples, Italy (AFP) May 10, 2019 - As space agencies prepare to return humans to the Moon, top engineers are racing to design a tunnel boring machine capable of digging underground colonies for the first lunar inhabitants.
Washington (AFP) May 10, 2019 - Jeff Bezos, the richest man in the world and head of space company Blue Origin, announced Thursday his intent to participate in the new race to the Moon with a high-tech lander to carry vehicles and equipment.
Cleveland OH (SPX) May 09, 2019 - In preparation of establishing a sustainable presence on the Moon by 2028, NASA is developing new technologies that will let astronauts land, live and explore the surface. In this video, Marc Gibson
Washington DC (UPI) May 09, 2019 - Blue Origin founder Jeff Bezos unveiled plans Thursday to land humans on the moon by 2024 - in a new lander called Blue Moon. The company held a news conference in Washington, D.C., to announc
New Delhi (Xinhua) May 06, 2019 - India will become the first country to land a rover on the Moon's the south pole if the country's space agency Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) successfully achieves the feat during the c
New Delhi (Sputnik) May 03, 2019 - The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) has postponed the launch of Chandrayaan-2, the country's second lunar mission, to July of this year. All the modules are getting ready for Chandr
London, UK (SPX) May 01, 2019 - The flash from the impact of the meteorite on the eclipsed Moon, seen as the dot at top left (indicated by the arrow in the second image), as recorded by two of the telescopes operating in the frame
Beijing (XNA) Apr 30, 2019 - The lander and the rover of the Chang'e-4 probe have resumed work for the fifth lunar day on the far side of the moon after sleeping during the extreme cold night. The lander woke up at 7:40
New Haven CT (SPX) Apr 30, 2019 - For more than a century, scientists have squabbled over how the Earth's moon formed. But researchers at Yale and in Japan say they may have the answer. Many theorists believe a Mars-sized obje
Beijing (Sputnik) Apr 29, 2019 - China has set an ambitious goal of building a scientific research centre on the moon in about 10 years in the area of its South Pole, the state agency Xinhua reported citing the head of the China
Columbus OH (The Conversation) Apr 29, 2019 - Looking up at the silvery orb of the Moon, you might recognize familiar shadows and shapes on its face from one night to the next. You see the same view of the Moon our early ancestors did as it lig
