Moscow (Sputnik) Mar 03, 2017 - ISRO boss AS Kiran Kumar says the second lunar mission Chandrayaan 2 is making good progress; it is scheduled for launch next year. But critics question why should India get into the manned spacefli
Houston TX (SPX) Feb 28, 2017 - Space Center Houston is the first of four stops of a new exhibit featuring the Apollo 11 command module, which will leave the Smithsonian on a national tour for the first time since 1971. It will be
New Delhi (Sputnik) Feb 17, 2017 - ISRO has started a series of ground tests for testing the performance of sensors and actuators for soft landing of the Lander on the lunar surface. India Space Research Organization (ISRO) has
San Francisco CA (SPX) Feb 15, 2017 - SpaceKnow announced the company has raised $4 million in Series A financing led by BlueYard Capital and previously existing investor Reflex Capital. This investment brings the company's total funds
Moscow (Sputnik) Feb 01, 2017 - Moon Express, the first private company to receive government approval for a space mission, has announced an additional $20 million raised for a lunar voyage in late 2017. A front-runner to wi
Moscow (Sputnik) Feb 01, 2017 - The Moon may be peppered with oxygen transmitted by life on Earth, according to a scientific study, opening up the possibility that the Earth's atmosphere of billions of years ago may be preserved o
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Jan 31, 2017 - Arizona State University (ASU) is developing a small satellite that will search hydrogen in lunar craters with the ultimate goal of creating the most detailed map of the moon's water deposits. The s
Moscow (Sputnik) Jan 27, 2017 - Google and nonprofit company X Prize announced Wednesday that out of 33 original teams, five have secured launch contracts to send spacecraft to the moon. Teams must launch their spacecraft no later
Beijing (XNA) Jan 24, 2017 - China plans to launch the Chang'e-5 lunar probe at the end of November this year, from the Wenchang Space Launch Center in southern China's Hainan Province, aboard the heavy-lift carrier rocket Long
Tempe AZ (SPX) Jan 19, 2017 - Arizona State University's NASA mission to visit a metal asteroid is just beginning, but the first mission that marked the school as a major player in space exploration has been under way for more t
Washington (AFP) Jan 16, 2017 - US astronaut Eugene Cernan, the last man to set foot on the moon, died Monday at age 82, NASA and his family announced.
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Jan 13, 2017 - A UCLA-led research team reports that the moon is at least 4.51 billion years old, or 40 million to 140 million years older than scientists previously thought. The findings - based on an analysis of
Haifa, Israel (SPX) Jan 10, 2017 - The Moon, and the question of how it was formed, has long been a source of fascination and wonder. Now, a team of Israeli researchers suggests that the Moon we see every night is not Earth's first m
Changchun (XNA) Jan 10, 2017 - Chinese scientists are drawing a 1:2.5 million scale geological map of the Moon. Ouyang Ziyuan, first chief scientist of China's lunar exploration program, said five universities and research
Greenbelt MD (SPX) Jan 09, 2017 - Powerful solar storms can charge up the soil in frigid, permanently shadowed regions near the lunar poles, and may possibly produce sparks that could vaporize and melt the soil, perhaps as much as
Beijing (XNA) Dec 28, 2016 - China is planning missions to explore the far side of the Moon and to send robots to explore both lunar poles. Plans to send astronauts to the Moon are also being discussed, according to Wu Ya
