Washington DC (SPX) Apr 16, 2019 - Space exploration brings humanity some of its greatest challenges and opportunities. We faced this hard fact on April 11 when the Beresheet spacecraft developed by Israel's SpaceIL failed to success
Washington DC (SPX) Apr 16, 2019 - NASA is working right now to send American astronauts to the surface of the Moon in five years, and the agency has its sights set on a place no humans have ever gone before: the lunar South Pole.
Greenbelt MD (SPX) Apr 16, 2019 - Researchers from NASA and the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel, Maryland, report that streams of meteoroids striking the Moon infuse the thin lunar atmosphere with a sho
Bremen, Germany (SPX) Apr 12, 2019 - The compact German Aerospace Center (Deutsches Zentrum fur Luft- und Raumfahrt; DLR) Eu:CROPIS satellite is now rotating in space at a rate of 17.5 revolutions per minute, generating a gravitational
Washington (UPI) Apr 12, 2019 - Billionaire Morris Kahn has announced plans for a second attempt to successfully land a spacecraft, Beresheet 2, on the moon for Israel - a project that might take two years.
Colorado Springs CO (SPX) Apr 12, 2019 - Bridgestone Corporation has announced that it will take part in an international space exploration mission together with the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) and Toyota Motor Corporation. R
Jerusalem (AFP) April 11, 2019 - Israel's attempt at a moon landing failed at the last minute on Thursday when the craft suffered an engine failure as it prepared to land and apparently crashed onto the lunar surface.
(UPI) Apr 11, 2019 - Beresheet is attempting to make history on Thursday. The spacecraft is trying to become the first privately funded lander to touch down on the moon.
Colorado Springs (AFP) April 11, 2019 - In the shadow of the Rocky Mountains, Alan Campbell, a project manager for space systems at the famed Draper Laboratory that built the computer which took astronauts to the Moon 50 years ago, is waiting for news from NASA.
Berlin, Germany (ESA) Apr 08, 2019 - European Space Agency operations specialists are helping flight planners at new European space startup PTScientists, headquartered in Berlin, pilot their way to the Moon. PTScientists are plan
Washington (UPI) Apr 4, 2019 - Next week's record-setting lunar landing was dependent on the success of this week's entry into orbit.
Jerusalem (AFP) April 4, 2019 - An Israeli spacecraft on the country's first lunar mission began orbiting the Moon on Thursday, completing a key manoeuvre ahead of a planned touchdown next week, mission chiefs said.
Cape Canaveral FL (UPI) Apr 03, 2019 - Lunar lander company OrbitBeyond is eyeing Florida for a new facility. That would make it the latest so-called Newspace commercial company to join growing space race momentum in the Sunshine State.
Kingston RI (SPX) Apr 01, 2019 - Little is known about the inner structure of the Moon, but a major step forward was made by a University of Rhode Island scientist who conducted experiments that enabled her to determine the tempera
Paris (ESA) Apr 01, 2019 - ESA Director of Human and Robotic Exploration, David Parker, and Associate Administrator for NASA's Science Mission Directorate, Thomas Zurbuchen, signed a Statement of Intent to coordinate joint sc
Washington (AFP) March 30, 2019 - For the past 15 years, America has sought to put its astronauts back on the Moon, but NASA did not think it could be done before 2028.
