Washington DC (UPI) Jan 6, 2024 - The Navajo Nation is protesting the planned delivery of human remains to the moon as part of an unmanned lunar launch scheduled for Monday.
Cape Canaveral (AFP) Jan 5, 2024 - Final preparations were underway Friday for the launch of the first American spacecraft to attempt a lunar landing in more than 50 years, under a new partnership between NASA and private industry.
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Jan 04, 2024 - In a significant advancement for lunar exploration, Astrobotic is set to embark on one of the first Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) deliveries to the Moon, utilizing Ansys' (NASDAQ: ANSS) s
Birmingham UK (SPX) Jan 04, 2024 - Two commercial spacecraft are scheduled to launch to the Moon early in 2024 under a Nasa initiative called the Commercial Lunar Payload Service CLPS. This programme is intended to kickstart a commer
Washington DC (SPX) Dec 31, 2023 - The VIPER team is hard at work building the flight vehicle that will be going to the surface of the Moon this time next year! In fact, we're about halfway through the build, and you can interactivel
Tokyo (AFP) Dec 25, 2023 - Japan's SLIM space probe entered the Moon's orbit on Monday in a major step towards the country's first successful lunar landing, expected next month.
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Dec 22, 2023 - NASA astronauts Nicole Mann and Doug Wheels Wheelock have recently tested a sub-scale mockup of an innovative elevator system designed for SpaceX's Starship human landing system. This system is ea
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Dec 21, 2023 - Intuitive Machines, Inc. (Nasdaq: LUNR, LUNRW), in a recent announcement made in coordination with SpaceX, has set a new launch window for its much-anticipated IM-1 lunar mission. The mission, now t
Washington DC (UPI) Dec 20, 2023 - The White House said Wednesday that the United States plans to land an international astronaut on the surface of the moon by 2030. Vice President Kamala Harris will announce the mission at Wednesday's Space Council meeting.
Washington DC (SPX) Dec 15, 2023 - In our last post, we described how VIPER, NASA's first robotic Moon rover, is using artificial intelligence to create several options for the VIPER team to plan the rover's path during its mission t
Strasbourg, France (SPX) Dec 14, 2023 - A new set of tools for astronomers and planetary explorers use interactive visual analytics and machine learning to reveal and contrast properties of objects in our galaxy. From identifying the 'wei
Melbourne, Australia (SPX) Dec 14, 2023 - The year 2023 proved a big one for lunar science. India's Chandrayaan-3 spacecraft landed near the south pole of the Moon, a huge accomplishment for a country relatively new to the space scene, espe
Sydney, Australia (SPX) Dec 13, 2023 - In a groundbreaking development, scientists from the China University of Geosciences, Wuhan, in collaboration with researchers from Brown University and the University of Hawaii, have successfully m
Kirtland AFB NM (SPX) Dec 12, 2023 - Over the last several years, the Air Force Research Laboratory, or AFRL, unveiled two programs, Defense Deep Space Sentinel, or D2S2, and Oracle, to develop cislunar space situational awareness, or
Lawrence KS (SPX) Dec 11, 2023 - Human beings first disturbed moon dust on Sept. 13, 1959, when the USSR's unmanned spacecraft Luna 2 alighted on the lunar surface. In the following decades, more than a hundred other spacecraft hav
Sydney, Australia (SPX) Dec 07, 2023 - In a significant development for space research in Australia, the Queensland University of Technology (QUT) is in the final stages of constructing a lunar testbed, set to be the first of its kind in
