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The Moon Daily Editorial Team produces Moon Daily's coverage of lunar exploration and science. We report on Artemis, landers and the Gateway, commercial lunar payloads, and the science of lunar geology, regolith and water ice. Articles reflect our team's collective editorial process, source verification, drafting, technical review, and editing, rather than a single writer's work. Moon Daily takes editorial responsibility for content under this byline. For more on how we work, see our editorial policy.

Taiwan to make lunar lander for NASA moon-mining mission

Taipei (AFP) July 18, 2016 - Taiwan is building a $47 million lunar lander as part of the first ever moon-mining project, officials said Monday.

Jul 18, 2016

NASA camera catches moon ‘photobombing’ Earth

Greenbelt MD (SPX) Jul 14, 2016 - For only the second time in a year, a NASA camera aboard the Deep Space Climate Observatory (DSCOVR) satellite captured a view of the moon as it moved in front of the sunlit side of Earth. For the

Jul 14, 2016

Russia to spend $60M in 2016-2018 to fund space voyages to Moon, Mars

Moscow (Sputnik) Jun 28, 2016 - The project to create a nuclear-power transport module, intended to fly to the moon and Mars, will receive 3.81 billion rubles ($60 million) in funding in 2016-2018, according to the public procurem

Jun 28, 2016

Russian Moon Base to Hold Up to 12 People

Moscow (Sputnik) Jun 24, 2016 - Russian engineers are working on a project of a Moon base that will eventually hold up to 12 people, the spokeswoman of a research institute with the Russian space agency Roscosmos told local media.

Jun 24, 2016

Fifty Years of Moon Dust

Pasadena CA (JPL) Jun 06, 2016 - Before humans could take their first steps on the moon, that mysterious and forbidding surface had to be reconnoitered by robots. When President John Kennedy set a goal of landing astronauts on the

Jun 6, 2016

US may approve private venture moon mission: report

Washington (AFP) June 6, 2016 - The US government, in a first, is preparing to approve a private commercial space mission beyond the Earth's orbit, the Wall Street Journal has reported.

Jun 6, 2016

Airbus Defence and Space to guide lunar lander to the Moon

Paris, France (SPX) Jun 03, 2016 - Airbus Defence and Space and the European Space Agency (ESA), have signed a contract for the early development of a system that will ensure the safe and precise landing of the Russian Luna-Resource

Jun 3, 2016

A new, water-logged history of the Moon

Paris (AFP) May 31, 2016 - After the Apollo missions scooped up rocks from the Moon's surface and brought them home, scientists were convinced for decades that they had proof our nearest celestial neighbour was drier than a bone.

May 31, 2016

Russian Firm Develops Project of Reusable Spacecraft for Lunar Missions

Moscow (Sputnik) May 30, 2016 - Russia's state company Energia has developed a project of reusable manned Ryvok spacecraft for delivery of cargo and cosmonauts to the Moon, the company's representative Yuri Makushenko said Wednesd

May 30, 2016

SwRI scientists discover fresh lunar craters

San Antonio TX (SPX) May 24, 2016 - A Southwest Research Institute-led team of scientists discovered two geologically young craters - one 16 million, the other between 75 and 420 million, years old - in the Moon's darkest regions.

May 24, 2016

NASA research gives new insights into how the Moon got inked

Greenbelt MD (SPX) May 05, 2016 - A powerful combination of observations and computer simulations is giving new clues to how the moon got its mysterious tattoos - swirling patterns of light and dark found at over a hundred locatio

May 5, 2016

First rocket made ready for launch at Vostochny spaceport

Moscow (Sputnik) Apr 26, 2016 - A Soyuz-2.1a carrier rocket has been installed at Russia's new Vostochny Cosmodrome's launch site ahead of its first space launch, Russia's Federal Space Agency Roscosmos said Saturday in a statemen

Apr 26, 2016

Russia, US discuss boosting efficiency of cooperation at ISS

Moscow (Sputnik) Apr 22, 2016 - The deputy head of the Russian Federal Space Agency said that Russia and the United States discussed the possibility of increasing the efficiency of cooperation at ISS. Russia and the United S

Apr 22, 2016

Russia to shift all Lunar launches to Vostochny Cosmodrome

Moscow (Sputnik) Apr 15, 2016 - Russia will stop using the Soviet-era Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan for lunar launches, according to Russian-based Rocket and Space Corporation (RSC Energia). Moscow made the decision to s

Apr 15, 2016

Supernova iron found on the moon

Munich, Germany (SPX) Apr 15, 2016 - A dying star ends its life in a cataclysmic explosion, shooting the majority of the star's material, primarily new chemical elements created during the explosion, out into space. One or more such su

Apr 15, 2016

Lunar lava tubes could help pave way for human colony

The Woodlands TX (Sputnik) Apr 08, 2016 - Scientists have found evidence that the Moon's underground could have long tunnels of volcanic origin, which could potentially be repurposed to house human colonies. These channels (also called lav

Apr 8, 2016