Harbin (XNA) Apr 30, 2018 - China has the technological basis for a manned lunar landing, says Zhou Jianping, chief designer of China's manned space program. Human exploration of the universe would not stop in low-Earth
Tampa (AFP) Apr 28, 2018 - In a move that shocked lunar scientists, NASA has cancelled the only robotic vehicle under development to explore the surface of the Moon, despite President Donald Trump's vow to return people there
Tempe AZ (SPX) Apr 26, 2018 - Around four billion years ago, the Moon had a magnetic field that was about as strong as Earth's magnetic field is today. How the Moon, with a much smaller core than Earth's, could have had such a s
Beijing (XNA) Apr 25, 2018 - China on Monday called for submissions from the public with creative approaches for the design of its manned lunar landing and ascent vehicles. According to Zhou Jianping, chief designer of Ch
Washington DC (Sputnik) Apr 25, 2018 - The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is continuing to discuss working with other partner countries on the Lunar Orbital Platform-Gateway program, the US space agency told Sputnik
Moscow (Sputnik) Apr 24, 2018 - The United States offers to use US-made space suits instead of Russian-made Orlan suits for conducting spacewalks outside the Lunar Orbital Platform-Gateway, a space industry source told Sputnik.
Beijing (XNA) Apr 23, 2018 - China will give a name to the relay satellite for the Chang'e-4 lunar probe, which is expected to land softly on the far side of the Moon in late 2018. The name will be announced on China's Sp
Washington DC (Sputnik) Apr 23, 2018 - As the space race heats up, the first contracts for the manufacture of key components for humanity's Gateway orbital lunar base will be awarded in 2019, according to NASA. Expected to begin ne
Moscow (Sputnik) Apr 20, 2018 - Scientists are convinced that humankind is capable of turning the Moon into a space outpost: people have cosmodromes, heavy carrier rockets, space modules and lunar rovers. Sputnik reveals what is b
New Delhi (Sputnik) Apr 20, 2018 - The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) has claimed that it has saved $120 million in public money in the upcoming moon mission Chandrayaan-2, which is expected to be launched in October-Nov
Guildford, UK (SPX) Apr 19, 2018 - Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd (SSTL), Goonhilly Earth Station (GES) and the European Space Agency (ESA) have signed a collaboration agreement for Commercial Lunar Mission Support Services at the
Colorado Springs CO (Sputnik) Apr 19, 2018 - Moon village - a product of international collaboration among spacefaring nations - already exists in contracts and remains an open concept, European Space Agency (ESA) Director-General Jan Woerner
Paris (ESA) Apr 18, 2018 - It's one of the deepest 'swimming pools' in Europe, but for three years has been helping preparations for a human return to the Moon. ESA's Neutral Buoyancy Facility at the European Astronaut Centre
Munich, Germany (SPX) Apr 13, 2018 - The International Astronomical Union (IAU), the internationally recognized authority for naming celestial bodies and their surface features, recently approved a dozen names proposed by NASA's New Ho
Washington DC (UPI) Apr 12, 2018 - NASA has updated the video tour of the moon first created by the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter in 2011.
Flagstaff AZ (SPX) Apr 06, 2018 - NAU assistant professor of planetary science Christopher Edwards co-authored a paper recently published in Nature Geoscience that has generated interest among scientists in the field as well as in m
