New Delhi (AFP) Oct 18, 2023 - India plans to send a man to the Moon and set up a space station by 2040, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said, as the country ramps up its space programme.
Washington DC (SPX) Oct 16, 2023 - Lunar exploration is expanding at a rapid pace, and a robust lunar economy within the next decade is coming quickly into focus. It's clear that many shareable, scalable commercial systems will be ne
Paris (ESA) Oct 13, 2023 - When astronauts return to the lunar surface they are probably going to be doing more driving than walking - but to keep billowing moondust at bay they are going to need roads. An ESA project reporte
Changchun, China (XNA) Oct 13, 2023 - China on Wednesday started the construction of a 40-meter-aperture radio telescope in the Changbai Mountain area in the northeastern province of Jilin, to support future lunar and deep-space probe m
Beijing, China (SPX) Oct 12, 2023 - As the nearest celestial body to Earth, Moon's space environment is distinctive to Earth's mainly because of lack of a significant atmosphere/ionosphere and a global magnetic field. From a global pe
Stanford CA (SPX) Oct 12, 2023 - For decades, scientists have pondered the mystery of the moon's ancient magnetism. Based on analyses of lunar samples, its now-deceased magnetic field may have been active for more than 1.5 billion
Paris (ESA) Oct 10, 2023 - ESA is calling for visionary ideas for how to use a constellation of communication and navigation satellites around the Moon to establish lunar businesses - and unlock opportunities on Earth.
Cedar Park TX (SPX) Oct 05, 2023 - Firefly Aerospace, an end-to-end space transportation company, has completed the development and assembly of its Blue Ghost lander structure and fluid systems, a critical milestone for Firefly's fir
Beijing (XNA) Oct 04, 2023 - The China National Space Administration (CNSA) is offering opportunities for international cooperation on payloads that will piggyback on the country's Chang'e-8 lunar exploration mission, slated fo
Beijing (XNA) Oct 04, 2023 - The Chang'e 8 robotic probe, the third to be placed on the moon during China's next lunar exploration endeavor, is open to foreign science payloads, according to the China National Space Administrat
Montreal, Canada (SPX) Oct 04, 2023 - Lunar exploration is the catalyst behind an unprecedented surge in the space exploration sector which saw global government investment rise to an impressive $26 billion during 2023. Ambitious lunar
Washington DC (UPI) Oct 3, 2023 - NASA will begin the critical testing of updated engines for its Space Launch System rocket on Thursday, starting with turning power levels up to 111%, as the space agency prepares for future Artemis missions to the Moon.
Beijing (XNA) Oct 01, 2023 - The Chang'e 6 mission, China's next robotic expedition to the moon, has been scheduled to land on the moon next year, tasked with bringing back samples from the little-known far side, according to t
Berkeley CA (SPX) Sep 28, 2023 - There are unexplored regions of the universe - and there are also unexplored times. In fact, there's a nearly 400-million-year gap in our universe's history that we've never seen: a time before star
West Lafayette IN (SPX) Sep 27, 2023 - China, India and the U.S. have all achieved landing on the Moon in the 2020s. Once there, their eventual goal is to set up a base. But a successful base - along with the spacecraft that will c
Shanghai (XNA) Sep 26, 2023 - Chinese researchers are studying the possibility of setting up a safe, stable and long-term shelter in lunar lava tubes. During Moon's early days, when the upper layer of lava flow cooled and
