Moscow (Sputnik) Oct 30, 2015 - Organizing for Russian cosmonauts to fly to the Moon will require four launches of Angara-?5V heavy-class carrier rockets during the initial stage of the mission, head of Russia's Energia space corp
Greenbelt MD (SPX) Oct 29, 2015 - A team of NASA-funded scientists has solved an enduring mystery from the Apollo missions to the moon - the origin of organic matter found in lunar samples returned to Earth. Samples of the lunar soi
Moscow (AFP) Oct 28, 2015 - Six Russian women on Wednesday clambered into a mock spaceship to begin a unique experiment testing how an all-female crew would interact on a trip to the Moon and back.
Moscow (Sputnik) Oct 28, 2015 - A manned lunar landing by Russian cosmonauts is planned for 2029, the head of the Russian Space Agency Energia said Tuesday. A manned flight to the moon and lunar landing is planned for 2029,
New York (AFP) Oct 23, 2015 - An exceptionally rare watch worn by an American astronaut on the Moon which bears remnants of lunar material has sold for more than $1.6 million, a US auction house said Friday.
Moscow (Sputnik) Oct 21, 2015 - Despite the current freeze in relations between Russia and the West, the European Space Agency (ESA) and its Russian counterpart, Roscosmos, plan to launch a probe to the Moon's southern pole to loo
Providence RI (SPX) Oct 16, 2015 - A giant mound near the Moon's south pole appears to be a volcanic structure unlike any other found on the lunar surface, according to new research by Brown University geologists. The formation
Paris (ESA) Oct 07, 2015 - The pockmarked landscape captured in this image from ESA's SMART-1 mission is the surface of our Moon. Some of the many craters scattered across the lunar surface are clearly visible, records of the
Mountain View, Calif. (UPI) Oct 3, 2015 - California-based space exploration startup Moon Express has signed a deal with Rocket Lab to commence a series of lunar launches starting in 2017.
Moscow, Russia (SPX) Oct 02, 2015 - Water reserves found on the moon are the result of asteroids acting as delivery vehicles and not of falling comets as was previously thought. Using computer simulation, scientists from MIPT and th
Moscow (Sputnik) Sep 28, 2015 - Russian scientists are currently studying lunar ice, hoping to get hydrogen rocket fuel, water and oxygen from the moon, Igor Mitrofanov from the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS) told Radio Sputnik
Greenbelt MD (SPX) Sep 23, 2015 - On the evening of Sept. 27, 2015, into the early morning of Sept. 28 EDT, operators of NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) will wait as Earth blots out the sun and the moon goes dark. The flig
Beijing (XNA) Sep 22, 2015 - A Long March-5 carrier rocket on Sunday was shipped from North China's Tianjin port for a rehearsal of a scheduled Chang'e-5 lunar mission around 2017. It will be the first drill carried out i
Greenbelt MD (SPX) Sep 16, 2015 - Earth's gravity has influenced the orientation of thousands of faults that form in the lunar surface as the moon shrinks, according to new results from NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) spac
Boston MA (SPX) Sep 11, 2015 - Scientists believe that about 4 billion years ago, during a period called the Late Heavy Bombardment, the moon took a severe beating, as an army of asteroids pelted its surface, carving out craters
Beijing (XNA) Sep 10, 2015 - China is planning to be the first country to land a lunar probe on the far side of the moon, a Chinese lunar probe scientist said Tuesday. The mission will be carried out by Chang'e-4, a backu
