Beijing (XNA) Oct 24, 2014 - China will launch a new lunar mission this week to test technology likely to be used in Chang'e-5, a future lunar probe with the ability to return to Earth. The experimental spacecraft launche
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Oct 24, 2014 - This week China will launch a new lunar orbiter, which, in contrast with previous space probes, will return to Earth after orbiting the Moon, China's official Xinhua news agency reports. Ye Pe
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Oct 14, 2014 - New samples of lunar soil will be delivered to Earth in 2023-2025, an official from a Russian aerospace company said Friday. The program currently has four missions: the first demonstration l
Moscow (XNA) Oct 14, 2014 - Russia will take the Moon exploration as a core of its space program for the next decade, Federal Space Agency Roscosmos said Friday. This year Roscosmos has prepared a long-term program of d
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Oct 14, 2014 - The Luna-25 exploration mission will cost tens of billions of rubles, an official from Russian Federal Space Agency said Friday. Let's say, we are talking tens of billions of rubles because i
Tempe, Ariz. (UPI) Oct 14, 2014 - Scientists have known the moon once hosted dozens of volcanos and oozing magmatic vents. More recently, researchers credited this ancient volcanic activity with forming the lunar feature known as the man in the moon.
Beijing (XNA) Oct 14, 2014 - China's ailing moon rover Yutu has entered its 11th dormancy as the lunar night falls, with its functions degrading gracefully, its designer said Friday. The rover is currently in good condition and
Washington DC (SPX) Oct 14, 2014 - NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) has provided researchers strong evidence the moon's volcanic activity slowed gradually instead of stopping abruptly a billion years ago. Scores of dis
Tempe, Ariz. (UPI) Oct 13, 2014 - Data collected by NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter indicates moon volcanoes were active more recently than previously thought, researchers said.
Boston MA (SPX) Oct 06, 2014 - New data obtained by NASA's GRAIL mission reveals that the Procellarum region on the near side of the moon - a giant basin often referred to as the man in the moon - likely arose not from a massiv
Providence RI (SPX) Oct 03, 2014 - Oceanus Procellarum, a vast dark patch visible on the western edge of the Moon's near side, has long been a source of mystery for planetary scientists. Some have suggested that the ocean of storms
Paris (AFP) Oct 01, 2014 - A dark lunar basin that, seen from Earth, produces the Man in the Moon effect, was created by an outpouring of lava and not an asteroid strike, astronomers said Wednesday.
Southampton, UK (SPX) Sep 29, 2014 - Scientists from the University of Southampton are to turn the Moon into a giant particle detector to help understand the origin of Ultra-High-Energy (UHE) cosmic rays - the most energetic particles
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Sep 24, 2014 - Russia's space agency Roscosmos plans to launch a full-scale Moon exploration program in late 2020s or early 2030s, the agency's head Oleg Ostapenko said on Tuesday. We are planning to comple
Cambridge, UK (SPX) Sep 19, 2014 - Anyone who has seen the movies of Neil Armstrong's first bounding steps on the moon couldn't fail to be intrigued by his unusual walking style. But, contrary to popular belief, the astronaut's pecul
Washington (UPI) Sep 8, 2014 - The supermoon is making an encore, its last appearance before the moon's perigee - the portion of its orbit closest to Earth - and 2014 slowly fade away.
