Ames IA (SPX) Dec 14, 2016 - The sonic boom created by an airplane comes from the craft's large, speeding body crashing into molecules in the air. But if you shrank the plane to the size of a molecule, would it still generate a
New Delhi (IANS) Dec 06, 2016 - Domestic space technology startup TeamIndus on Thursday signed a first-of-its-kind contract with the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) to send a TeamIndus robot to the Moon. TeamIndus will l
New Delhi (Sputnik) Dec 06, 2016 - An Indian aerospace start-ups's plans to send a mission to moon as part of the Google's Lunar XPRIZE challenge has received a major boost in funding from local corporate houses and entrepreneurs. A
Wellington (AFP) Dec 1, 2016 - Retired astronaut Buzz Aldrin, the second man to walk on the Moon, was recovering in a New Zealand hospital Friday after being medically evacuated from the South Pole while on a tourist trip, his management said.
Moscow (Sputnik) Nov 30, 2016 - Russia's space agency said that Roscosmos does not intend to abandon the implementation of the Luna-Grunt (Lunar Sample-Return) project aimed at delivering lunar soil to the Earth. Roscosmos does no
Jakarta (AFP) Nov 14, 2016 - Skygazers took to high-rise buildings, observatories and beaches Monday to get a glimpse of the closest supermoon to Earth in almost seven decades, and snap dramatic pictures.
Paris (AFP) Nov 10, 2016 - An unusually large and bright Moon will adorn the night sky next Monday - the closest supermoon to Earth in 68 years and a chance for dramatic photos and spectacular surf. Weather permitting
Boston MA (SPX) Nov 09, 2016 - The full Moon on Monday, November 14th, will be a little bigger and brighter than normal, because on that day the Moon will be closer to Earth than it's been in nearly 69 years. At 6:23 a.m. E
Davis CA (SPX) Nov 02, 2016 - Earth's moon is an unusual object in our solar system, and now there's a new theory to explain how it got where it is, which puts some twists on the current giant impact theory. The work is publis
San Antonio TX (SPX) Nov 02, 2016 - A Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) team successfully opened a failsafe door on the Lyman-Alpha Mapping Project (LAMP) instrument in lunar orbit, improving the quality of ultraviolet (UV) data i
College Park MD (SPX) Nov 02, 2016 - The moon, Earth's closest neighbor, is among the strangest planetary bodies in the solar system. Its orbit lies unusually far away from Earth, with a surprisingly large orbital tilt. Planetary scien
Tianjin (XNA) Nov 02, 2016 - China is well prepared to launch the Chang'e-5 lunar probe in 2017 to collect and bring back moon rock samples for scientific research, a leading Chinese scientist said Sunday. Chief Scientist
Pasadena CA (JPL) Oct 31, 2016 - New results from NASA's Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory (GRAIL) mission are providing insights into the huge impacts that dominated the early history of Earth's moon and other solid worlds,
Providence RI (SPX) Oct 28, 2016 - Using data from NASA's Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory (GRAIL) mission, scientists have shed new light on the formation of a huge bull's-eye-shaped impact feature on the Moon. The findings,
Moscow (Sputnik) Oct 26, 2016 - The Russian Academy of Sciences' Space Council has plans to revive a moon exploration program using lunar rovers, Russian media reported, citing a laboratory head from the academy's Space Research I
Tempe AZ (SPX) Oct 24, 2016 - The Moon's surface is being gardened - churned by small impacts - more than 100 times faster than scientists previously thought. This means that surface features believed to be young are perhaps e
