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Chinese astronauts may grow veg on Moon
Dec 04, 2012 (XNA)
Chinese astronauts may get fresh vegetables and oxygen supplies by gardening in extraterrestrial bases in the future, an official said after a just-concluded la...
WSU researchers use 3-D printer to make parts from moon rock
Dec 03, 2012 (SPX)
Imagine landing on the moon or Mars, putting rocks through a 3-D printer and making something useful - like a needed wrench or replacement part. "It sounds like...
China's Chang'e-3 to land on moon next year
Nov 13, 2012 (XNA)
China will launch its latest lunar satellite in the second half of next year, the Chang'e-3, paving the way for a future manned moon landing, a senior space ind...
Moon crater yields impact clues
Nov 06, 2012 (UPI)
NASA scientists say an almost perfectly preserved crater on the moon should yield clues to the evolution of impact craters on Earth and other rocky bodies. The ...
Study: Moon basin formed by giant impact
Oct 29, 2012 (UPI)
A flattened 1,800-mile-wide section of the moon was likely caused by a collision with an asteroid the size of Austria, Japanese researchers say. Scientists at t...
NASA's LADEE Spacecraft Gets Final Science Instrument Installed
Oct 26, 2012 (SPX)
Engineers at NASAs Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, Calif., have installed the third and final science instrument that will fly onboard NASA's Lunar Atmosph...
Astrium presents results of its study into automatic landing near the Moon's south pole
Oct 25, 2012 (SPX)
What technologies are needed to ensure a safe, accurate Moon landing and in-situ lunar research? Astrium is currently investigating this question in Lunar Lande...
European mission to search for moon water
Oct 22, 2012 (UPI)
A European mission to the moon will search for signs of water that could allow future astronauts to set up habitats on its surface, scientists say. Planned for ...
Proof at last: Moon was created in giant smashup
Oct 18, 2012 (SPX)
It's a big claim, but Washington University in St. Louis planetary scientist Frederic Moynier says his group has discovered evidence that the Moon was born in a...
Model reconciles Lunar Earth composition with giant impact theory
Oct 18, 2012 (SPX)
The giant impact believed to have formed the Earth-Moon system has long been accepted as canon. However, a major challenge to the theory has been that the Earth...
Massive planetary collision may have zapped key elements from moon
Oct 18, 2012 (SPX)
Fresh examinations of lunar rocks gathered by Apollo mission astronauts have yielded new insights about the moon's chemical makeup as well as clues about the gi...
Giant smashup created the Moon, say scientists
Oct 17, 2012 (AFP)
A chemical quirk found in lunar soil backs a 37-year-old theory that the Moon was born from an apocalyptic collision between Earth and a huge space rock, scient...
University of Tennessee study confirms solar wind as source for moon water
Oct 16, 2012 (SPX)
Three years ago University of Tennessee, Knoxville, researchers helped to discover water on the surface of the moon. Now, they are piecing together the origin o...
Solar wind particles likely source of water locked inside lunar soils
Oct 15, 2012 (SPX)
The most likely source of the water locked inside soils on the moon's surface is the constant stream of charged particles from the sun known as the solar wind, ...
Russia to launch lunar mission in 2015
Oct 15, 2012 (XNA)
Russia would launch a lunar mission in 2015, a space research association head said Friday. The goal of the unmanned moon landing mission was to prove that the ...
Moon water could have solar source: study
Oct 14, 2012 (AFP)
Scientists on Sunday said they had found water molecules in samples of lunar soil, and their unusual signature points to the Sun as the indirect source. Samples...
Russian moon mission said funded, ready
Oct 12, 2012 (UPI)
Russia's proposed moon missions have been fully funded and the first is planned for 2015, a space industry official says. The project, revised after last year's...
Rover designed to drill for moon ice
Oct 10, 2012 (UPI)
U.S. scientists say they've built a full-size prototype of a solar-powered robot designed to search for potentially rich deposits of water ice on the moon. The ...
China has no timetable for manned moon landing
Sep 26, 2012 (XNA)
A senior scientist working on China's lunar orbiter project said Wednesday that China has not yet created a timetable for its manned moon landing program. "Putt...
Senior scientist discusses China's lunar orbiter challenges
Sep 26, 2012 (XNA)
Landing and enduring extreme temperatures will be the two biggest challenges facing Chang'e-3, China's third lunar probe, the chief scientist of China's lunar o...
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