Seattle WA (SPX) Jan 31, 2016 - When the moon is high in the sky, it creates bulges in the planet's atmosphere that creates imperceptible changes in the amount of rain that falls below. New University of Washington research
Moscow (Sputnik) Jan 21, 2016 - Russia initially planned to launch a manned aircraft to the moon atop an Angara heavy rocket carrier from its Vostochny space port in 2025. The earlier version of the state space program - worth som
Zwickau, Germany (UPI) Jan 15, 2016 - Audi is lending its engineering talents to a team of scientists in the Google Lunar XPrize competition. Together, the German auto makers and the Part-Time Scientists are optimizing a moon rover called the Audi lunar quattro.
Beijing (XNA) Jan 12, 2016 - China has developed the manufacturing techniques for a key part to be used on its super-heavy rocket that will fulfill the nation's manned missions to the moon. The China Academy of Launch Veh
Notre Dame IN (SPX) Jan 08, 2016 - Villages on the moon, constructed through cooperation between astronauts and robotic systems on the lunar surface, could become a reality as early as 2030. That's the consensus of a recent internati
Beijing (XNA) Jan 06, 2016 - The landing site of China's first moon lander Chang'e-3 has been named Guang Han Gong or Moon Palace, more than two years after the spacecraft made a successful soft-landing on the moon in Decem
Moscow (Sputnik) Dec 31, 2015 - South Korea plans to launch a lunar exploration project next year with a 2020 timeframe of landing a lunar vessel, the country's Ministry of Science, ICT and Future Planning said as quoted by local
Moscow (Sputnik) Dec 31, 2015 - Russia's deputy prime minister refuted rumors that the country's lunar program is in a crisis, saying that it in fact is far from being cut. Russia has not dropped its lunar program and rumors
Moscow (Sputnik) Dec 30, 2015 - The Russian space agency Roscosmos will give up on manned flights to the Moon and related activities at least until 2025, the Russian Izvestia newspaper reported Tuesday, citing the updated version
Moffett Field CA (SPX) Dec 21, 2015 - NASA scientists have released new findings about the Moon's tenuous exosphere - the thin layer of gas surrounding the Moon that is one 25-trillionth the density of Earth's atmosphere. The data revea
Greenbelt MD (SPX) Dec 21, 2015 - Not since 1977 has a full moon dawned in the skies on Christmas. But this year, a bright full moon will be an added gift for the holidays. December's full moon, the last of the year, is called
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Dec 10, 2015 - Moon Express has received official verification of their launch contract from XPRIZE as part of the $30M Google Lunar XPRIZE, a global competition for privately funded teams to land an unmanned spac
Boulder CO (SPX) Nov 10, 2015 - Scientists at Southwest Research Institute combined dynamical, thermal, and chemical models of the Moon's formation to explain the relative lack of volatile elements in lunar rocks. Lunar rocks clos
Paris (ESA) Nov 09, 2015 - Located 1.5 million km from the Earth, ESA's Gaia spacecraft is scanning the sky to conduct the most detailed census of stars in our Galaxy. However, on 6 November, it will be perfectly placed to wi
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
