Paris (ESA) Jun 02, 2020 - Development of Europe's first ever lunar lander was agreed upon by ESA Member States in 2019 and now ESA is seeking your ideas for science and robotic missions on the Moon. Set to launch on an
New Delhi (Sputnik) May 29, 2020 - The US announced the Artemis Accord on 15 May and asked countries to join the treaty to explore the Moon with a new framework, while opposing the 1979 Moon Agreement. The US claimed that the new agr
San Antonio TX (SPX) May 28, 2020 - NASA has awarded Southwest Research Institute $3 million to develop a lunar version of its Laser Absorption Spectrometer for Volatiles and Evolved Gas (LASVEGAS) instrument. This spectrometer can pr
Chennai (IANS) May 21, 2020 - The Indian space agency has got the patent for its method of manufacturing highland lunar soil simulant or simply lunar/moon soil. As a part of its Moon landing mission Chandrayaan-2, the Indi
Bloomington IN (The Conversation) May 21, 2020 - Private industries have helped drop the cost of launching rockets, satellites and other equipment into space to historic lows. That has boosted interest in developing space - both for mining raw mat
Moscow (Sputnik) May 19, 2020 - Russia's Roscosmos space corporation on Saturday expressed readiness to negotiate Moon exploration initiatives with the US National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), as such talks could b
Washington (Sputnik) May 19, 2020 - The US government still hopes that Russia will support the newly proposed bilateral Artemis Accords for the economic development of space between the Earth and the Moon, NASA Acting Associate Admini
Kennedy Space Center FL (SPX) May 15, 2020 - With its Artemis program, NASA will quickly and sustainably return to the lunar surface. To prepare for sustainable operations on the Moon, NASA is advancing technologies needed to explore and work
Paris (ESA) May 15, 2020 - A laser light shone through the dark could power robotic exploration of the most tantalising locations in our Solar System: the permanently-shadowed craters around the Moon's poles, believed to be r
Washington DC (SPX) May 14, 2020 - NASA is working across the country to build the Gateway, an outpost near the Moon that will support human missions on the lunar surface and help develop a sustainable presence. Behind the scenes are
Toronto, Canada (SPX) May 12, 2020 - New research published in the journal Nature Astronomy reveals a type of destructive event most often associated with disaster movies and dinosaur extinction may have also contributed to the formati
Washington DC (UPI) May 11, 2020 - Parts of the moon's crust were forged by large and violent meteorite impacts, according to new research published Monday in the journal Nature Astronomy.
Beijing (Sputnik) May 11, 2020 - China is able to compete with the United States in the exploitation of moon resources. Successful testing of the Chang Zheng-5B heavy-lift rocket is an important step in this direction, Sergei Filip
Pittsburgh PA (SPX) May 11, 2020 - Astrobotic proudly announces that it is has been selected to develop and lead a new commercial payload service onboard the Dynetics Human Landing System (HLS). Dynetics, a wholly owned subsidiary of
Moscow (Sputnik) May 08, 2020 - The designers say that the aim of their project is to withstand the toughest weather conditions, something that might help NASA's scheduled 2024 mission to the moon, dubbed Artemis. Two Dani
West Lafayette IN (SPX) May 05, 2020 - Shirley Dyke doesn't see the moon as a crater-filled sphere. She expects lunar dwellings to begin emerging in a decade, helping reach out to further space habitation. And she wants her researc
