University Park PA (SPX) Jun 11, 2014 - The Man in the Moon appeared when meteoroids struck the Earth-facing side of the moon creating large flat seas of basalt that we see as dark areas called maria. But no face exists on farside of th
Oxford, UK (SPX) Jun 09, 2014 - A new series of measurements of oxygen isotopes provides increasing evidence that the Moon formed from the collision of the Earth with another large, planet-sized astronomical body, around 4.5 billi
Greenbelt MD (SPX) May 30, 2014 - Scientists combined observations from two NASA missions to check out the moon's lopsided shape and how it changes under Earth's sway - a response not seen from orbit before. The team drew on s
Honolulu HI (SPX) May 29, 2014 - A recent review of hundreds of chemical analyses of Moon rocks indicates that the amount of water in the Moon's interior varies regionally - revealing clues about how water originated and was redist
Washington DC (SPX) May 27, 2014 - NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) will celebrate five years in orbit June 18. To celebrate the anniversary and LRO's many scientific contributions, NASA invites the public to select a favori
Moscow (Voice of Russia) May 12, 2014 - Russia will start colonizing the Moon in 2030, Izvestia daily reported on Thursday. The daily has received a draft concept of Russian lunar program developed by enterprises of the Federal Space Agen
Greenbelt MD (SPX) May 12, 2014 - NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) experiences 12 earthrises every day, however LROC (short for LRO Camera) is almost always busy imaging the lunar surface so only rarely does an opportunit
Pittsburgh, PA (SPX) May 05, 2014 - Astrobotic Technology has announced a new partnership with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) for development of robotic lunar landing capability. Astrobotic has been sel
Washington DC (SPX) Apr 22, 2014 - In the space race of the 1950s and '60s, the leading voices were rocket scientist Wernher von Braun and ... another guy. Household names included Neil Armstrong, Alan Shepard and ... oh, you know,
Greenbelt MD (SPX) Apr 19, 2014 - Ground controllers at NASA's Ames Research Center in Moffett Field, Calif., have confirmed that NASA's Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer (LADEE) spacecraft impacted the surface of the m
Moscow (Voice of Russia) Apr 15, 2014 - Russia plans to organize a permanent base on the moon rather than leave it after several successful missions, the Russian deputy defense minister in charge of defense and space industries said. The
Moscow (Voice of Russia) Apr 09, 2014 - The Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos) has created a team of specialists, which will elaborate the Moon program. The scientists plan to launch three spacecraft - two landing and one orbital -
Washington DC (SPX) Apr 07, 2014 - NASA's Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer (LADEE) spacecraft is gradually lowering its orbital altitude over the moon. LADEE will continue to make important science observations before i
Sydney, Australia (SPX) Apr 04, 2014 - As we consider the next spacecraft to land on the Moon, let's not overlook an increasing problem in scientific research. The laser reflectors already on the Moon are getting old, and need to be repl
Boulder CO (SPX) Apr 04, 2014 - An international team of planetary scientists determined that the Moon formed nearly 100 million years after the start of the solar system, according to a paper to be published April 3 in Nature. Th
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Apr 02, 2014 - The amount of water present in the moon may have been overestimated by scientists studying the mineral apatite, says a team of researchers led by Jeremy Boyce of the UCLA Department of Earth, Planet
