Paris, France (SPX) Apr 01, 2016 - The Earth's magnetic field permanently protects us from the charged particles and radiation that originate in the Sun. This shield is produced by the geodynamo, the rapid motion of huge quantities o
Washington DC (Sputnik) Mar 30, 2016 - A human colony of astronauts could be living on the Moon by 2022, thanks to modern technology making missions cheaper, according to NASA scientists. The Apollo program that lead to the first h
Moscow (Sputnik) Mar 29, 2016 - Politics, lobbyists, and corruption set back US space program to pre-1960s capacity despite scientific and technological advances that should lead to advances to new frontiers. On Thursday, pr
Dallas TX (SPX) Mar 24, 2016 - A new study published in Nature reports discovery of a rare event - that Earth's moon slowly moved from its original axis roughly 3 billion years ago. Planetary scienti
Moffett Field CA (SPX) Mar 24, 2016 - New NASA-funded research provides evidence that the spin axis of Earth's moon shifted by about five degrees roughly three billion years ago. The evidence of this motion is recorded in the distributi
Moscow (Sputnik) Mar 15, 2016 - Living on the Moon may become a reality sooner than anticipated as astrophysicists have assessed that a permanent lunar base is logistically feasible for humans - and could be built in less than a d
Beijing (XNA) Mar 04, 2016 - China will launch a data relay satellite to ensure communication between Earth and the lunar probe during an expedition to the far side of the moon, Ye Peijian, chief scientist with China's lunar ex
Washington (Sputnik) Feb 29, 2016 - In responding to criticism that NASA has lost its direction under the Obama administration, space policy expert John Logson still believes that while mistake were made, a mission to Mars during the
Tempe AZ (SPX) Feb 26, 2016 - ASU professor hopes Smithsonian exhibition of LROC team's striking images gets people excited about returning to the moon. Sometimes you get the party started by accidentally crashing someone else's
Washington DC (SPX) Feb 25, 2016 - Images from NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) will be on display at the National Air and Space Museum in Washington, D.C. beginning Feb. 26 The new exhibit, A New Moon Rises: New View
Washington (AFP) Feb 22, 2016 - NASA has made public a recording of strange music that astronauts reported hearing in 1969 while on the far side of the Moon, out of radio contact with the Earth.
Tempe AZ (SPX) Feb 17, 2016 - It's difficult to imagine a shoebox on the forefront of scientific discovery. However, that's exactly what a group of researchers at ASU's School of Earth and Space Exploration is doing. The team is
Lanzhou, China (XNA) Feb 17, 2016 - Chinese scientists have developed a system to measure the leak rate for a vacuum environment which will be used in the country's third step moon exploration program. According to scientists at
Starkville MS (SPX) Feb 12, 2016 - History remembers the two American astronauts who first walked on the moon on July 20, 1969. One of those astronauts, Buzz Aldrin, told a crowd in Lee Hall's Bettersworth Auditorium at Mississippi S
Birmingham UK (SPX) Feb 07, 2016 - Crashing into a planet is seldom a good idea. If you're trying to travel to another world, you're likely to land at tens of kilometres per second unless you do something serious to slow down. When N
Miami (AFP) Feb 6, 2016 - US astronaut Edgar Mitchell, one of just 12 people to have walked on the Moon, has died aged 85, his family and NASA said Friday, calling him a pioneer.
