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NASA Completes LADEE Mission with Planned Impact on Moon's Surface
Apr 19, 2014 (SPX)
Ground controllers at NASA's Ames Research Center in Moffett Field, Calif., have confirmed that NASA's Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer (LADEE) sp...
Russia plans to get a foothold in the Moon
Apr 15, 2014 (Voice of Russia)
Russia plans to organize a permanent base on the moon rather than leave it after several successful missions, the Russian deputy defense minister in charge of d...
Russian Federal Space Agency is elaborating Moon exploration program
Apr 09, 2014 (Voice of Russia)
The Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos) has created a team of specialists, which will elaborate the Moon program. The scientists plan to launch three space...
Take the Plunge: LADEE Impact Challenge
Apr 07, 2014 (SPX)
NASA's Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer (LADEE) spacecraft is gradually lowering its orbital altitude over the moon. LADEE will continue to make i...
Land a Lunar Laser Reflector Now!
Apr 04, 2014 (SPX)
As we consider the next spacecraft to land on the Moon, let's not overlook an increasing problem in scientific research. The laser reflectors already on the Moo...
New research finds 'geologic clock' that helps determine moon's age
Apr 04, 2014 (SPX)
An international team of planetary scientists determined that the Moon formed nearly 100 million years after the start of the solar system, according to a paper...
Scientists date Moon at 4.470 billion years
Apr 02, 2014 (AFP)
The Moon was formed about 95 million years after the birth of our Solar System, in a collision that also settled the structure of Earth as we know it, according...
Misleading mineral may have resulted in overestimate of water in moon
Apr 02, 2014 (SPX)
The amount of water present in the moon may have been overestimated by scientists studying the mineral apatite, says a team of researchers led by Jeremy Boyce o...
A Wet Moon
Mar 26, 2014 (SPX)
The Moon's status as a "dry" rock in space has long been questioned. Competing theories abound as to the source of the H20 in the lunar soil, including delivery...
Expeditions to the Moon: beware of meteorites
Mar 25, 2014 (Voice of Russia)
Experts say that future expeditions to the Moon may face quite a few dangers. One of them is meteorite attacks. The Moon has practically no atmosphere that woul...
ASU camera creates stunning mosaic of moon's polar region
Mar 25, 2014 (SPX)
the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera (LROC), run by the Arizona State University-based team under professor Mark Robinson, released what very well may be the...
Unique camera from NASA's moon missions sold at auction
Mar 22, 2014 (AFP)
The only camera to return from NASA's moon missions in 1969-1972 was sold at an auction in Vienna Saturday for 550,000 euros ($760,000), far outdoing its estima...
NASA Releases First Interactive Mosaic of Lunar North Pole
Mar 19, 2014 (SPX)
Scientists, using cameras aboard NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO), have created the largest high resolution mosaic of our moon's north polar region. Th...
Study on lunar crater counting shows crowdsourcing effective, accurate tool
Mar 16, 2014 (SPX)
If Galileo was still alive and kicking, he might want to take a selfie with some of the thousands of citizen scientists all around the world for their surprisin...
China's Jade Rabbit lunar rover rouses from latest slumber
Mar 14, 2014 (AFP)
China's troubled Jade Rabbit moon rover "woke up" again early Friday, though the mechanical troubles that have plagued it remain unfixed, the government said. T...
Spacesuits And Moon Notes Among The Stars At Bonhams NYC Auction
Mar 13, 2014 (SPX)
Bonhams Space History sale on April 8 will feature nearly 300 fascinating artifacts related to decades of international space exploration, including genuine spa...
Russia to launch three lunar rovers from 2016 to 2019
Mar 09, 2014 (Voice of Russia)
Russia's space agency, Roscosmos, will send three automated rovers to the moon from 2016 to 2019 as part of its plan to eventually send a manned mission to Mars...
Control circuit malfunction troubles China's Yutu
Mar 05, 2014 (XNA)
China's Yutu (Jade Rabbit) moon rover suffered a control circuit malfunction in its driving unit, which troubled its dormancy in extremely low temperature, a sc...
China's Lunar Lander Still Operational
Mar 03, 2014 (SPX)
While the world awaits the awakening of China's Yutu Moon rover at the end of this long lunar night, let's not forget that Yutu is not the only spacecraft on th...
China Focus: Uneasy rest begins for China's troubled Yutu rover
Feb 26, 2014 (XNA)
China's lunar rover Yutu entered its third planned dormancy on Saturday, with the mechanical control issues that might cripple the vehicle still unresolved. Acc...
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