Beijing (XNA) Dec 05, 2013 - The desert of fine, soft sand ripples with low dunes and not a plant is in sight. Simmering under a ceaseless noonday sun, the Kumtag desert descends through chill to extreme frigidity as night fall
Beijing (AFP) Dec 02, 2013 - China launched its first moon rover mission early Monday, the latest step in an ambitious space programme seen as a symbol of its rising global stature.
Paris (ESA) Dec 01, 2013 - Shortly after China's Chang'e-3 spacecraft departs Earth to land on the Moon, ESA's network of tracking stations will swing into action, providing crucial support for the vessel's five-day lunar cru
Tokyo (UPI) Nov 29, 2013 - A Japanese company has unveiled its concept of a lunar solar power generation installation that could send 13,000 continuous terawatts of power back to Earth.
Sydney, Australia (SPX) Nov 26, 2013 - The upcoming launch of China's Chang'e-3 Moon lander and rover follows a busy year for the Chinese space program. Awareness of China's growing strength in spaceflight is rising throughout the world.
Washington DC (SPX) Nov 25, 2013 - NASA's Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer (LADEE) is ready to begin collecting science data about the moon. On Nov. 20, the spacecraft successfully entered its planned orbit around the m
Philadelphia PA(SPX) Nov 24, 2013 - In 2015, Penn State's Lunar Lion team plans to put an unmanned spacecraft on the moon. In 2013, the ambitious project is putting cutting edge NASA equipment in students' hands. Through a recen
Crawley, Australia (SPX) Nov 22, 2013 - When Neil Armstrong took humanity's first otherworldly steps in 1969, he didn't know what a nuisance the lunar soil beneath his feet would prove to be. The scratchy dust clung to everything it touch
Sydney, Australia (SPX) Nov 22, 2013 - Things are going well for China's first lunar landing. The Chang'e-3 spacecraft and its rover are being processed at the launch site. So is the rocket to be used in this mission. With all preparatio
Pasadena CA (JPL) Nov 11, 2013 - Scientists using data from the lunar-orbiting twins of NASA's Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory (GRAIL) mission are gaining new insight into how the face of the moon received its rugged good
Pasadena, Calif. (UPI) Nov 7, 2013 - Scientists using data from twin lunar-orbiting spacecraft are gaining new insight into how the face of the moon received its rugged good looks, NASA reports.
Beijing (XNA) Nov 05, 2013 - A Shanghai-made lunar rover is all set to land on the moon with the Chang'e-3, China's third lunar probe that is set to be launched next month, local officials said yesterday. The moon rover h
Washington DC (SPX) Nov 01, 2013 - Thermal infrared (IR) energy is emitted from all things that have a temperature greater than absolute zero. Human eyes, primarily sensitive to shorter wavelength visible light, are unable to detect
Titusville FL (SPX) Oct 22, 2013 - The Aerospace Research and Engineering Systems Instituteis excited to announce the successful completion of the first phase of crowdfunding and conceptual development of a unique spacecraft to explo
Moffett Field CA (SPX) Oct 20, 2013 - During the NASA shutdown, the LADEE mission continued to perform its critical maneuvers and capture into the commissioning orbit around the moon. The trajectory correction maneuver (TCM-1) was compl
Leicester UK (SPX) Oct 08, 2013 - footage of the first moon landing promised a future of sci-fi heroism that never came to pass, according to a new study. The paper, by Professor Steve Brown and Professor Martin Parker, of the
