New Delhi (IANS) Dec 17, 2012 - India has no plans to put an astronaut on the moon, as of now. Minister of State in the Prime Minister's Office V Narayanasamy in the Rajya Sabha on Thursday said this. The minister also said
Huntsville AL (SPX) Dec 14, 2012 - A pair of NASA spacecraft that have been studying the Moon's gravitational field are being prepared for a controlled descent into a mountain near the Moon's north pole. Impact is expected at about 2
Greenbelt MD (SPX) Dec 12, 2012 - Forty years after the last Apollo spacecraft launched, the science from those missions continues to shape our view of the moon. In one of the latest developments, readings from the Apollo 14 and 15
Washington (AFP) Dec 6, 2012 - Two former top NASA officials unveiled plans Thursday to sell manned flights to the moon by the end of the decade, in an announcement 40 years after the last human set foot there.
Washington DC (SPX) Dec 06, 2012 - Twin NASA probes orbiting Earth's moon have generated the highest resolution gravity field map of any celestial body. The new map, created by the Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory (GRAIL) mis
Beijing (XNA) Dec 04, 2012 - Chinese astronauts may get fresh vegetables and oxygen supplies by gardening in extraterrestrial bases in the future, an official said after a just-concluded lab experiment in Beijing. Deng Yi
Pullman WA (SPX) Dec 03, 2012 - Imagine landing on the moon or Mars, putting rocks through a 3-D printer and making something useful - like a needed wrench or replacement part. It sounds like science fiction, but now it's really
Beijing (XNA) Nov 13, 2012 - China will launch its latest lunar satellite in the second half of next year, the Chang'e-3, paving the way for a future manned moon landing, a senior space industry official said on Saturday.
Pasadena CA (JPL) Nov 07, 2012 - Opportunity has completed approximately half of the local area survey around the location called Matijevic Hill (named in honor of Jake Matijevic) at the inboard edge of Cape York on the rim of Ende
Greenbelt, Md. (UPI) Nov 6, 2012 - NASA scientists say an almost perfectly preserved crater on the moon should yield clues to the evolution of impact craters on Earth and other rocky bodies.
Tokyo (UPI) Oct 29, 2012 - A flattened 1,800-mile-wide section of the moon was likely caused by a collision with an asteroid the size of Austria, Japanese researchers say.
Moffett Field, CA (SPX) Oct 26, 2012 - Engineers at NASAs Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, Calif., have installed the third and final science instrument that will fly onboard NASA's Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer (LAD
Bremen, Germany (SPX) Oct 25, 2012 - What technologies are needed to ensure a safe, accurate Moon landing and in-situ lunar research? Astrium is currently investigating this question in Lunar Lander studies for the European Space Agenc
London (UPI) Oct 22, 2012 - A European mission to the moon will search for signs of water that could allow future astronauts to set up habitats on its surface, scientists say.
Boulder CO (SPX) Oct 18, 2012 - The giant impact believed to have formed the Earth-Moon system has long been accepted as canon. However, a major challenge to the theory has been that the Earth and Moon have identical oxygen isotop
St. Louis MO (SPX) Oct 18, 2012 - It's a big claim, but Washington University in St. Louis planetary scientist Frederic Moynier says his group has discovered evidence that the Moon was born in a flaming blaze of glory when a body th
