Moscow (RIA Novosti) Nov 23, 2011 - If Russia's Phobos-Grunt Mars mission fails the country's space agency may focus on Moon exploration, the deputy head of the Roscosmos agency said on Tuesday. The Mars probe was launched from
Albuquerque NM (SPX) Nov 22, 2011 - The Schafer Corporation has signed a Licensing and Development Agreement with MoonDust Technologies, LLC (MDT) of Tucson, AZ to give them exclusive, worldwide production and marketing rights for a u
Berlin, Germany (SPX) Nov 22, 2011 - Although the Moon is so far the only celestial body other than Earth on which a human being has ever walked, the topography of its surface has not been studied comprehensively. This is why NASA's Lu
Greenbelt MD (SPX) Nov 18, 2011 - The science team that oversees the imaging system on board NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) has released the highest resolution near-global topographic map of the moon ever created. T
Huntsville AL (SPX) Nov 17, 2011 - How can a world without air have an ionosphere? Somehow the Moon has done it. Lunar researchers have been struggling with the mystery for years, and they may have finally found a solution. But first
Santa Cruz CA (SPX) Nov 11, 2011 - The presence of magnetized rocks on the surface of the Moon, which has no global magnetic field, has been a mystery since the days of the Apollo program. Now a team of scientists has proposed a nove
Moscow (VOR) Oct 20, 2011 - Russian scientists at the Space Research Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences have chosen six venues for landing the Luna-Glob probe. With the launch of the probe in 2014, Russia will resume
Tucson AZ (SPX) Oct 10, 2011 - A map of the Moon combining observations in visible and ultraviolet wavelengths shows a treasure trove of areas rich in Titanium ores. Not only is Titanium a valuable mineral, it is key to helping s
Pasadena CA (JPL) Oct 07, 2011 - NASA's Gravity Recovery And Interior Laboratory (GRAIL)-B spacecraft successfully executed its first flight path correction maneuver Wednesday, Oct. 5. The rocket burn helped refine the spacecraft's
Paris (AFP) Oct 7, 2011 - A new map of the Moon has revealed an abundance of titanium ore that is up to 10 times richer than on Earth, a finding that could one day lead to a lunar mining colony, astronomers said on Friday.
Washington DC (SPX) Oct 06, 2011 - NASA has a class assignment for U.S. students: help the agency give the twin spacecraft headed to orbit around the moon new names. The naming contest is open to students in kindergarten throug
Moffett Field, CA (SPX) Sep 27, 2011 - A team of researchers partnered with the NASA Lunar Science Institute (NLSI) has developed a new hypothesis for the origin of crater ejecta-debris that is launched out of a crater during meteorite i
Beijing (XNA) Sep 22, 2011 - China will launch its lunar probe Chang'e-3 around 2013, which is expected to conduct the first softlanding of a Chinese spacecraft on an extraterrestrial body. The mission of Chang'e-3 is to
Cape Canaveral FL (SPX) Sep 12, 2011 - A United Launch Alliance (ULA) Delta II rocket carrying the Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory (GRAIL) spacecraft for NASA lifted off from Space Launch Complex (SLC)-17B here at 9:08 a.m. EDT
Washington DC (AFP) Sep 10, 2011 - NASA on Saturday launched a pair of unmanned spacecraft on a journey to study the core of the Moon and hopefully reveal how it formed some 4.5 billion years ago. The twin GRAIL satellites, sho
Cape Canaveral FL (SPX) Sep 09, 2011 - Upper level winds in the unacceptable range Thursday morning delayed the GRAIL launch by 24 hours. The forecast for Friday shows a 40 percent chance of favorable weather conditions at launch time.
