Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Oct 24, 2025 - Researchers have examined over 400 glass particles collected from the far side of the Moon during the Change-6 mission, identifying 178 impact glass beads to analyze their microstructures and compos
Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Oct 23, 2025 - Meteorites are vital tools for investigating planetary formation and evolution, yet most are lost to atmospheric and geological processes on Earth. Carbonaceous Ivuna-type (CI) chondrites are partic
Washington (AFP) Oct 20, 2025 - NASA is seeking bids for its planned Moon mission to compete against SpaceX, Elon Musk's company that the US space agency's chief said Monday is behind.
Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Oct 17, 2025 - Space Quarters Inc., a deep-tech startup spun out from Tohoku University, has raised $5.0 million in seed funding to accelerate the development of robotic and electron beam welding systems for const
Washington DC (UPI) Oct 17, 2025 - NASA's Orion spacecraft was moved seven miles to the Vehicle Assembly Building at Kennedy Space Center Thursday, its second-to-last move before its scheduled launch in 2026.
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Oct 09, 2025 - New analyses of the South Pole-Aitken basin recast the formation of the Moon's largest impact crater and what it reveals about lunar origins. Led by University of Arizona planetary scientist Jeffrey
Providence RI (SPX) Oct 07, 2025 - When astronauts returned from NASA's final Apollo Moon mission in 1972, some of the samples they collected were sealed and carefully stored away in the hope that future researchers using advanced eq
Brisbane, Australia (SPX) Oct 01, 2025 - QUT's Centre for Robotics will play a central role in keeping Australia's first lunar rover, known as Roo-ver, safely on course during its mission to the Moon. Professor Michael Milford, Direc
London UK (SPX) Oct 01, 2025 - The lunar far side may have a colder interior than the near side, according to a new analysis of rock samples collected by China's Chang'e 6 mission. A study led by researchers from UCL and Peking U
Rome, Italy (SPX) Oct 01, 2025 - Telespazio, a joint venture between Leonardo (67 percent) and Thales (33 percent), and lunar exploration company ispace have signed a Letter of Intent to begin technical and commercial collaboration
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Oct 01, 2025 - Blue Origin has announced Project Oasis, a multi-phase campaign to identify and utilize lunar resources. The first mission, Oasis-1, will work with Luxembourg partners to produce the most detailed o
Huntsville AL (SPX) Sep 30, 2025 - One year after winning second place in NASA's Break the Ice Lunar Challenge, members of the small business Starpath visited NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, as part of the
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Sep 30, 2025 - A Chinese-led research team has identified 41 new landslides on the Moon since 2009, concluding that endogenic moonquakes, not fresh impacts, are the primary trigger. The finding redefines understan
Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Sep 30, 2025 - Chinese researchers have proposed that surplus argon-40 detected in lunar soil may originate from a stream of particles escaping Earth's atmosphere, a process they describe as Earth wind. The work,
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Sep 30, 2025 - When Apollo 17 astronauts returned with lunar rock sample 76535, they unknowingly carried back a fragment that would continue to puzzle scientists for decades. The rock formed nearly 50 kilometers b
Sydney, Australia (SPX) Sep 30, 2025 - Crest Robotics and Earthbuilt Technology will present Charlotte, the first robot capable of constructing buildings on both Earth and the Moon, at the 76th International Astronautical Congress in Syd
