Houston (AFP) June 16, 2019 - Moon rocks look rather nondescript - they are often gray in color - but for NASA planetary scientist Samuel Lawrence, they are the most precious materials on Earth.
Houston (AFP) June 16, 2019 - After Neil Armstrong took a giant leap for mankind on the Moon nearly 50 years ago and collected rocks and soil along the way, Richard Nixon presented lunar souvenirs to every nation - 135, at the time.
Washington (AFP) June 15, 2019 - Who will take the giant leap for womankind?
Paris (AFP) June 14, 2019 - When Neil Armstrong walked on the Moon, he became the biggest live television star in history.
Ottawa, Canada (SPX) Jun 13, 2019 - Mission Control is excited to announce the support of the Canadian Space Agency (CSA) for their ongoing development of Mission Control Software for the next generation of commercial space exploratio
Bangalore, India (AFP) June 12, 2019 - India on Wednesday unveiled a spacecraft which is expected to take off for the moon next month, making the country only the fourth to achieve the feat.
Waco TX (SPX) Jun 12, 2019 - A mysterious large mass of material has been discovered beneath the largest crater in our solar system - the Moon's South Pole-Aitken basin - and may contain metal from the asteroid that crashed int
Washington (AFP) June 7, 2019 - US President Donald Trump tweeted on Friday that NASA should stop talking about going back to the Moon, which caused confusion since his administration aims to restart Moon landings by 2024.
Tucson AZ (SPX) Jun 06, 2019 - When the first humans stepped onto the Moon a half-century ago on July 20, 1969, they knew they were venturing into the unknown. Some had feared their lander would be swallowed up by bottomless laye
Kennedy Space Center FL (SPX) Jun 06, 2019 - NASA is gearing up for a test of the system that will help keep astronauts safe when traveling to the Moon aboard agency's Orion spacecraft. The Ascent Abort-2 (AA-2) flight test will put Orion's la
Wurzburg, Germany (SPX) Jun 04, 2019 - On the Moon flashes and other enigmatic light phenomena can be observed again and again. With a new telescope, a professor at the University of Wurzburg wants to get to the bottom of these phenomena
Pittsburgh PA (SPX) May 31, 2019 - Astrobotic was selected by NASA's Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) program to deliver 14 payloads to the Moon on its Peregrine lunar lander in July 2021. With this $79.5 million CLPS award,
Washington DC (SPX) May 31, 2019 - NASA has selected three commercial Moon landing service providers that will deliver science and technology payloads under Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) as part of the Artemis program. Eac
Houston TX (SPX) May 31, 2019 - Intuitive Machines will join NASA's new era of lunar exploration with a robotic landing on the Moon in 2021, under a contract award announced by NASA on Friday. The firm, fixed-price contract for no
Washington DC (VOA) May 30, 2019 - At a May meeting in Washington, U.S. and Japanese officials affirmed the desire for continued scientific cooperation between the two countries. They collaborate on space exploration, space and earth
Beijing (XNA) May 30, 2019 - The lander and the rover of the Chang'e-4 probe have resumed work for the sixth lunar day on the far side of the moon after sleeping during the extremely cold night. The lander woke up at 6
