Paris (ESA) Oct 28, 2020 - ESA Director General Jan Worner and NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to take Europe to the Moon. The historic agreement will see ESA Member States c
Washington DC (SPX) Oct 27, 2020 - NASA's Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA) has confirmed, for the first time, water on the sunlit surface of the Moon. This discovery indicates that water may be distributed acr
Beijing (XNA) Oct 27, 2020 - The lander and the rover of the Chang'e 4 probe have been switched to the dormant mode for the lunar night after working stably for the 23rd lunar day, according to the Lunar Exploration and Space P
Boulder CO (SPX) Oct 27, 2020 - Hidden pockets of water could be much more common on the surface of the moon than scientists once suspected, according to new research led by the University of Colorado Boulder. In some cases, these
Tucson AZ (SPX) Oct 27, 2020 - Small shadowed cold traps scattered across the lunar polar regions could contain up to 20 percent of the frozen water on the Moon, making accessing water sources easier for lunar visitors. Fu
Washington DC (SPX) Oct 23, 2020 - NASA's Human Landing System (HLS) Program recently checked off a key milestone in its progress toward landing the first woman and the next man on the Moon by 2024. The HLS Program conducted Certif
Daytona Beach, FL (SPX) Oct 22, 2020 - Embry-Riddle is partnering with NASA commercial payload provider Intuitive Machines to send a camera to space that will capture the first-ever selfie of a spacecraft touching down on the moon.
Washington DC (SPX) Oct 19, 2020 - NASA has awarded Intuitive Machines of Houston approximately $47 million to deliver a drill combined with a mass spectrometer to the Moon by December 2022 under the agency's Commercial Lunar Payload
Houston TX (SPX) Oct 19, 2020 - NASA has selected Intuitive Machines to deliver the Polar Resources Ice Mining Experiment (PRIME-1) drill, combined with a mass spectrometer, to the Moon by December 2022. The ice drilling mis
Potsdam, Germany (SPX) Oct 16, 2020 - Presently, the moon does not have an internal magnetic field as it can be observed on Earth. However, there are localized regions on its surface up to several hundred kilometers in size where a very
Houston TX (SPX) Oct 16, 2020 - HeroX, the world's leading platform for crowdsourced solutions, has launched the crowdsourcing competition Honey I Built the NASA Payload, The Sequel on behalf of the NASA Tournament Lab (NTL) and
Bremen, Germany (SPX) Oct 15, 2020 - Airbus has been selected by the European Space Agency (ESA) as one of the two primes for the definition phase of the European Large Logistic Lander (EL3 ). In this study (phase A/B1), Airbus will de
Washington DC (SPX) Oct 15, 2020 - The Gateway program is making progress toward establishing a sustainable lunar presence. Behind the scenes, women like Sharada Vitalpur and Lindsey Ingram are working hard to make the Gateway a real
Washington DC (UPI) Oct 15, 2020 - NASA will fund a project by Nokia to build a 4G cellular communication network on the moon with $14.1 million, the space agency announced.
Washington DC (Sputnik) Oct 14, 2020 - The United States remains hopeful that Russia will join its Artemis program to return humans to the surface of the Moon by 2024, National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Administrator Ji
London, UK (SPX) Oct 14, 2020 - NASA's Artemis programme aims to land the first woman and the next man on the Moon by 2024. Commercial and international partners will collaborate to achieve a sustainable presence on the lunar surf
