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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.

Hunter’s Supermoon to light up Saturday night sky

New York (UPI) Oct 15, 2016 - A hunter's supermoon will light the sky Saturday and Sunday night, the first of three supermoons expected over the next three months.

Oct 15, 2016

Small Impacts Are Reworking Lunar Soil Faster Than Scientists Thought

Tempe AZ (SPX) Oct 14, 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

Oct 14, 2016

A facelift for the Moon every 81,000 years

Paris (AFP) Oct 12, 2016 - The Moon is bombarded by so much space rock that its surface gets a complete facelift every 81,000 years, according to a study released Wednesday based on NASA data.

Oct 12, 2016

Exploration Team Shoots for the Moon with Water-Propelled Satellite

Ithaca NY (SPX) Sep 19, 2016 - A satellite propelled by the Earth's most abundant natural resource? Yes, it's true. Cislunar Explorers, a team of Cornell University students guided by Mason Peck, a former senior official at NASA

Sep 19, 2016

At Least 8 Space Tourists Eye $150Mln Moon Trip on Board Russia’s Soyuz

Moscow (Sputnik) Aug 23, 2016 - Russia's S.P. Korolev Rocket and Space Corporation (RSC) Energia is preparing a Moon expedition on board an upgraded Soyuz spacecraft with eight space tourists interested in a trip, Energia's Genera

Aug 23, 2016

Roscosmos to spend $7.5Mln studying issues of manned lunar missions

Moscow (Sputnik) Aug 19, 2016 - The Russian state space corporation Roscosmos will spend 478 million rubles ($7.5 million) on studying issues of manned flights to the moon, data published on the Russian public procurement web port

Aug 19, 2016

Lockheed Martin, NASA Ink Deal for SkyFire Infrared Lunar Discovery Satellite

Moscow (Sputnik) Aug 10, 2016 - Lockheed Martin has just signed a contract with the US National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) for a miniature infrared satellite to provide scientists with advanced imaging of the Moon

Aug 10, 2016

As dry as the moon

Beijing (XNA) Aug 04, 2016 - Data sent back to the Earth by Chinese lunar probe Chang'e 3 has proved for the first time that there is no water on the moon, said a Chinese astronomer. The Chang'e 3 has gathered data on the

Aug 4, 2016

China’s Jade Rabbit lunar rover dies in blaze of online glory

Beijing (AFP) Aug 3, 2016 - China's troubled but beloved Jade Rabbit lunar rover has whirred its last, state media said Wednesday, after it bid humanity farewell on social media.

Aug 3, 2016

US company gets historic nod to send lander to moon

Miami (AFP) Aug 3, 2016 - US startup company Moon Express said Wednesday it had received approval from the government to send an unmanned lander to the moon next year, in a first for private industry.

Aug 3, 2016

Heart hazard for Apollo astronauts: study

Paris (AFP) July 28, 2016 - NASA's Apollo astronauts, the only humans to have travelled beyond Earth's protective magnetosphere, die disproportionately of heart and blood vessel diseases, researchers said Thursday, blaming radiation.

Jul 28, 2016

Russian and US engineers plan manned moon mission

Moscow (Sputnik) Jul 21, 2016 - Engineers in Russia and the US are completing a plan for a collaborative space program. The initiative would preserve the multinational alliance developed when the International Space Station (ISS)

Jul 21, 2016

Asteroid that formed moon’s Imbrium Basin may have been protoplanet-sized

Providence RI (SPX) Jul 21, 2016 - Around 3.8 billion years ago, an asteroid more than 150 miles across, roughly equal to the length of New Jersey, slammed into the Moon and created the Imbrium Basin - the right eye of the fabled Man

Jul 21, 2016

SSTL and Goonhilly announce partnership and a call for lunar orbit payloads

Guildford, UK (SPX) Jul 19, 2016 - Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd and Goonhilly Earth Station Ltd (GES) have announced a new partnership to go beyond Earth's orbit and provide a new model of low cost, high value, space exploration a

Jul 19, 2016

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