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NASA's LRO Spacecraft Captures Images of LADEE's Impact Crater
Oct 30, 2014 (SPX)
NASA'S Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) spacecraft has spied a new crater on the lunar surface; one made from the impact of NASA's Lunar Atmosphere and Dust E...
Next Chinese mission to moon will return to Earth
Oct 24, 2014 (RIA Novosti)
This week China will launch a new lunar orbiter, which, in contrast with previous space probes, will return to Earth after orbiting the Moon, China's official X...
New lunar mission to test Chang'e-5 technology
Oct 24, 2014 (XNA)
China will launch a new lunar mission this week to test technology likely to be used in Chang'e-5, a future lunar probe with the ability to return to Earth. The...
China's ailing moon rover weakening
Oct 14, 2014 (XNA)
China's ailing moon rover Yutu has entered its 11th dormancy as the lunar night falls, with its functions degrading gracefully, its designer said Friday. The ro...
Moon hosted small volcanic eruptions during last 50 million years
Oct 14, 2014 (UPI)
Scientists have known the moon once hosted dozens of volcanos and oozing magmatic vents. More recently, researchers credited this ancient volcanic activity with...
New Batch of Lunar Soil to be Delivered to Earth in 2023-2025
Oct 14, 2014 (RIA Novosti)
New samples of lunar soil will be delivered to Earth in 2023-2025, an official from a Russian aerospace company said Friday. "The program currently has four mis...
Russian Luna-25 Mission to Cost Billions
Oct 14, 2014 (RIA Novosti)
The Luna-25 exploration mission will cost tens of billions of rubles, an official from Russian Federal Space Agency said Friday. "Let's say, we are talking tens...
NASA Mission Finds Widespread Evidence of Young Lunar Volcanism
Oct 14, 2014 (SPX)
NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) has provided researchers strong evidence the moon's volcanic activity slowed gradually instead of stopping abruptly a ...
Russia to make Moon exploration core part of space program
Oct 14, 2014 (XNA)
Russia will take the Moon exploration as a core of its space program for the next decade, Federal Space Agency Roscosmos said Friday. "This year Roscosmos has p...
Researchers: Volcanoes on the moon recently active
Oct 13, 2014 (UPI)
Data collected by NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter indicates moon volcanoes were active more recently than previously thought, researchers said. John Keller,...
Solving the mystery of the 'man in the moon'
Oct 06, 2014 (SPX)
New data obtained by NASA's GRAIL mission reveals that the Procellarum region on the near side of the moon - a giant basin often referred to as the "man in the ...
Origin of moon's 'ocean of storms' revealed
Oct 03, 2014 (SPX)
Oceanus Procellarum, a vast dark patch visible on the western edge of the Moon's near side, has long been a source of mystery for planetary scientists. Some hav...
'Man in the Moon' was born from lava - scientists
Oct 01, 2014 (AFP)
A dark lunar basin that, seen from Earth, produces the "Man in the Moon" effect, was created by an outpouring of lava and not an asteroid strike, astronomers sa...
Turning the Moon into a cosmic ray detector
Sep 29, 2014 (SPX)
Scientists from the University of Southampton are to turn the Moon into a giant particle detector to help understand the origin of Ultra-High-Energy (UHE) cosmi...
Russia to Launch Full-Scale Moon Exploration Next Decade
Sep 24, 2014 (RIA Novosti)
Russia's space agency Roscosmos plans to launch a full-scale Moon exploration program in late 2020s or early 2030s, the agency's head Oleg Ostapenko said on Tue...
Lunar explorers will walk at higher speeds than thought
Sep 19, 2014 (SPX)
Anyone who has seen the movies of Neil Armstrong's first bounding steps on the moon couldn't fail to be intrigued by his unusual walking style. But, contrary to...
Year's final supermoon is a Harvest Moon
Sep 08, 2014 (UPI)
The supermoon is making an encore, its last appearance before the moon's perigee -- the portion of its orbit closest to Earth -- and 2014 slowly fade away. Of c...
China Aims for the Moon, Plans to Bring Back Lunar Soil
Aug 29, 2014 (RIA Novosti)
Chinese scientists are in the course of developing a recoverable lunar robotic spacecraft Chang'e 5 that is to reach the Moon by 2017 with a mission to deliver ...
Electric Sparks May Alter Evolution of Lunar Soil
Aug 22, 2014 (SPX)
The moon appears to be a tranquil place, but modeling done by University of New Hampshire (UNH) and NASA scientists suggests that, over the eons, periodic storm...
China to test recoverable moon orbiter
Aug 12, 2014 (XNA)
China is preparing for the launch of an experimental recoverable moon orbiter, said the State Administration of Science, Technology and Industry for National De...
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