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Lunar sonic booms
Dec 14, 2016 (SPX)
The sonic boom created by an airplane comes from the craft's large, speeding body crashing into molecules in the air. But if you shrank the plane to the size of...
India Inc joins hands to bid for moon mission
Dec 06, 2016 (Sputnik)
An Indian aerospace start-ups's plans to send a mission to moon as part of the Google's Lunar XPRIZE challenge has received a major boost in funding from local ...
TeamIndus signs contract with ISRO for lunar mission
Dec 06, 2016 (IANS)
Domestic space technology startup TeamIndus on Thursday signed a first-of-its-kind contract with the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) to send a TeamInd...
Moonwalker Buzz Aldrin stable after South Pole health scare
Dec 01, 2016 (AFP)
Retired astronaut Buzz Aldrin, the second man to walk on the Moon, was recovering in a New Zealand hospital Friday after being medically evacuated from the Sout...
Russian Space Agency Confirms Plans to Implement Lunar Sample-Return Mission
Nov 30, 2016 (Sputnik)
Russia's space agency said that Roscosmos does not intend to abandon the implementation of the Luna-Grunt (Lunar Sample-Return) project aimed at delivering luna...
Skygazers gawp at extra bright 'supermoon'
Nov 14, 2016 (AFP)
Skygazers took to high-rise buildings, observatories and beaches Monday to get a glimpse of the closest "supermoon" to Earth in almost seven decades, and snap d...
There's an 'extra-super' Moon on the rise
Nov 10, 2016 (AFP)
An unusually large and bright Moon will adorn the night sky next Monday - the closest "supermoon" to Earth in 68 years and a chance for dramatic photos and spec...
November 14th's Super-Close Full Moon
Nov 09, 2016 (SPX)
The full Moon on Monday, November 14th, will be a little bigger and brighter than normal, because on that day the Moon will be closer to Earth than it's been in...
China well prepared to launch Chang'e-5 lunar probe in 2017: top scientist
Nov 02, 2016 (XNA)
China is well prepared to launch the Chang'e-5 lunar probe in 2017 to collect and bring back moon rock samples for scientific research, a leading Chinese scient...
New Model Explains the Moon's Weird Orbit
Nov 02, 2016 (SPX)
The moon, Earth's closest neighbor, is among the strangest planetary bodies in the solar system. Its orbit lies unusually far away from Earth, with a surprising...
New Theory Explains How the Moon Got There
Nov 02, 2016 (SPX)
Earth's moon is an unusual object in our solar system, and now there's a new theory to explain how it got where it is, which puts some twists on the current "gi...
Switch Flipped on LAMP in Lunar Orbit to Improve Data
Nov 02, 2016 (SPX)
A Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) team successfully opened a "failsafe" door on the Lyman-Alpha Mapping Project (LAMP) instrument in lunar orbit, improving ...
NASA Moon Mission Shares Insights into Giant Impacts
Oct 31, 2016 (JPL)
New results from NASA's Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory (GRAIL) mission are providing insights into the huge impacts that dominated the early history o...
Research helps explain formation of ringed Lunar crater
Oct 28, 2016 (SPX)
Using data from NASA's Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory (GRAIL) mission, scientists have shed new light on the formation of a huge bull's-eye-shaped imp...
Russia plans to revive lunar rover moon exploration program
Oct 26, 2016 (Sputnik)
The Russian Academy of Sciences' Space Council has plans to revive a moon exploration program using lunar rovers, Russian media reported, citing a laboratory he...
2016 Ends with Three Supermoons
Oct 24, 2016 (SPX)
Step outside on October 16, and take a look at the moon. Not only will the moon be full, but on that day, the moon will be at it's closest point to our planet a...
Small impacts are reworking the moon's soil faster than scientists thoug
Oct 24, 2016 (SPX)
The Moon's surface is being "gardened" - churned by small impacts - more than 100 times faster than scientists previously thought. This means that surface featu...
Spectacular Lunar Grazing Occultation of Bright Star on Oct. 18
Oct 18, 2016 (SPX)
As seen from a path about a mile wide extending from Los Angeles, Calif., to Denver, and on to Minnesota south of Minneapolis (and further east, to Lake Superio...
Hunter's Supermoon to light up Saturday night sky
Oct 15, 2016 (UPI)
A hunter's supermoon will light the sky Saturday and Sunday night, the first of three supermoons expected over the next three months. Called a hunter's moon bec...
Small Impacts Are Reworking Lunar Soil Faster Than Scientists Thought
Oct 14, 2016 (SPX)
The Moon's surface is being "gardened" - churned by small impacts - more than 100 times faster than scientists previously thought. This means that surface featu...
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