Beijing (XNA) Mar 08, 2022 - China plans to send its Chang'e 7 robotic probe to search for water and other resources at the moon's south pole, according to a leading space scientist. The Chang'e 7 mission is set to find
Orlando FL (UPI) Mar 08, 2022 - NASA's desire to mine ice and minerals on the moon is driving new research on Earth into how astronauts could use moon materials to make machine parts, pave roads and construct living quarters. Scie
Copenhagen (AFP) March 8, 2022 - The first NASA photographs taken on the Moon, including the first shot of an Earthrise and Buzz Aldrin walking on the surface, will be auctioned off in Copenhagen on Wednesday.
Houston TX (SPX) Mar 07, 2022 - People say good things come to those who wait. NASA thinks 50 years is the right amount of time as it begins tapping into one of the last unopened, Apollo-era lunar samples to learn more about the M
Moscow, Russia (SPX) Feb 25, 2022 - Researchers from HSE University have developed a mathematical model that explains the levitation of charged dust particles over the sunlit lunar surface for almost any latitude. For the first time,
Bristol UK (SPX) Feb 24, 2022 - Thales Alenia Space, a joint venture between Thales (67%) and Leonardo (33%), has signed a study contract with the European Space Agency worth one million euros for a payload concept to extract oxyg
Huntsville AL (SPX) Feb 24, 2022 - Under Artemis, NASA plans to return to the Moon using innovative technologies to explore more of the lunar surface than ever before. This will require lunar surface systems that can deliver continuo
Boston MA (SPX) Feb 24, 2022 - This year NASA hopes to return astronauts to the Moon as early as March or April. Strategically, the Moon has something essential for life in space: water. Lunar ice can supply oxygen for hu
Turin, Italy (SPX) Feb 21, 2022 - ESA astronaut Alexander Gerst visited Thales Alenia Space in Turin recently to test out and provide feedback on accommodations for the next human outpost in space, the lunar Gateway. As the n
Beijing (XNA) Feb 20, 2022 - The Yutu-2 lunar rover of China's Chang'e-4 mission has discovered two macroscopic translucent glass globules during its exploration of the far side of the moon, which could potentially help reveal
Beijing, China (SPX) Feb 16, 2022 - Researchers led by Prof. YUE Zongyu and Prof. DI Kaichang from the Aerospace Information Research Institute (AIR) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) and their collaborators have established an
Tucson AZ (SPX) Feb 15, 2022 - The moon is top of mind for many national space programs and private companies, with some planning to send humans back to the lunar surface as early as 2025. In advance, scientists are launchi
London, UK (Sputnik) Feb 15, 2022 - The protection of the Moon is clearly stated in the 1967 Outer Space Treaty (OST) - an international document that prohibits any state to appropriate the space rock or other celestial bodies.
Westminster CO (SPX) Feb 11, 2022 - Advanced Space LLC., a leading space solutions company, has entered into a Cooperative Research And Development Agreement (CRADA) with the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL), Space Vehicles D
San Antonio TX (SPX) Feb 10, 2022 - Southwest Research Institute scientists joined a team that reanalyzed and modeled data from a planned lunar impact more than a decade ago. The findings suggest that volatiles present in a crater nea
New Delhi (IANS) Feb 04, 2022 - The Department of Space has planned as many as 19 missions this year even as the Chandrayaan-3, the next phase of India's mission to the moon, is scheduled for August 2022, the government told the L
