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China to send orbiter to moon and back
Aug 11, 2014 (AFP)
China will launch its first recoverable moon orbiter later this year, the government announced Sunday, in the latest step in its ambitious space programme. The ...
August supermoon will be brightest this year
Aug 08, 2014 (UPI)
A supermoon is the term for a full moon that rises during the portion of the moon's orbit when it comes closest to Earth -- the moon's perigee. During its perig...
Manned Moon Mission to Cost Russia $2.8 Bln
Aug 05, 2014 (RIA Novosti)
A manned mission to the Moon will cost Russia 100 billion rubles (about $2.8 billion), Igor Mitrofanov, laboratory director at the Russian Academy of Sciences' ...
Tidal forces gave moon its shape
Aug 01, 2014 (SPX)
The shape of the moon deviates from a simple sphere in ways that scientists have struggled to explain. A new study by researchers at UC Santa Cruz shows that mo...
Riddle of bulging Moon solved at last
Jul 30, 2014 (AFP)
Far from being perfectly round, the Moon has a weird shape, with a highland bulge on the side facing the Earth and another bulge on its far side -- a riddle tha...
China's biggest moon challenge: returning to earth
Jul 24, 2014 (XNA)
China's lunar probe, Chang'e-5, will be launched around 2017 and its mission to collect samples from the moon and return to earth is the most challenging yet, a...
Lunar Pits Could Shelter Astronauts, Reveal Details of How 'Man in the Moon' Formed
Jul 22, 2014 (SPX)
While the moon's surface is battered by millions of craters, it also has over 200 holes - steep-walled pits that in some cases might lead to caves that future a...
Manned mission to Moon scheduled by Roscosmos for 2020-2031
Jul 21, 2014 (Voice of Russia)
Russia is planning a manned mission to the Moon in 2030-2031, Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos) First Deputy Head Alexander Ivanov said on Monday, July 14, repor...
Landsat Looks to the Moon
Jul 14, 2014 (SPX)
Every full moon, Landsat 8 turns its back on Earth. As the satellite's orbit takes it to the nighttime side of the planet, Landsat 8 pivots to point at the moon...
NASA LRO's Moon As Art Collection Is Revealed
Jun 19, 2014 (SPX)
The Lunar Reconnaissance team has marked the fifth anniversary of the lunar explorer's mission. LRO launched from Florida on June 18, 2009. After a four-day jou...
Solar photons drive water off the moon
Jun 18, 2014 (SPX)
Water is thought to be embedded in the moon's rocks or, if cold enough, "stuck" on their surfaces. It's predominantly found at the poles. But scientists probabl...
55-year old dark side of the moon mystery solved
Jun 11, 2014 (SPX)
The Man in the Moon appeared when meteoroids struck the Earth-facing side of the moon creating large flat seas of basalt that we see as dark areas called maria....
New evidence supporting moon formation via collision of 2 planets
Jun 09, 2014 (SPX)
A new series of measurements of oxygen isotopes provides increasing evidence that the Moon formed from the collision of the Earth with another large, planet-siz...
NASA Missions Let Scientists See Moon's Dancing Tide From Orbit
May 30, 2014 (SPX)
Scientists combined observations from two NASA missions to check out the moon's lopsided shape and how it changes under Earth's sway - a response not seen from ...
Water in moon rocks provides clues and questions about lunar history
May 29, 2014 (SPX)
A recent review of hundreds of chemical analyses of Moon rocks indicates that the amount of water in the Moon's interior varies regionally - revealing clues abo...
NASA Invites Public to Select Favorite Moon Image for Lunar Orbiter Anniversary Collection
May 27, 2014 (SPX)
NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) will celebrate five years in orbit June 18. To celebrate the anniversary and LRO's many scientific contributions, NASA...
LRO View of Earth
May 12, 2014 (SPX)
NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) experiences 12 "earthrises" every day, however LROC (short for LRO Camera) is almost always busy imaging the lunar sur...
Russia to begin Moon colonization in 2030
May 12, 2014 (Voice of Russia)
Russia will start colonizing the Moon in 2030, Izvestia daily reported on Thursday. The daily has received a draft concept of Russian lunar program developed by...
Astrobotic Partners With NASA To Develop Robotic Lunar Landing Capability
May 05, 2014 (SPX)
Astrobotic Technology has announced a new partnership with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) for development of robotic lunar landing cap...
John C. Houbolt, Unsung Hero of the Apollo Program, Dies at Age 95
Apr 22, 2014 (SPX)
"In the space race of the 1950s and '60s, the leading voices were rocket scientist Wernher von Braun and ... another guy. Household names included Neil Armstron...
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