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Chang'e 4 mission discovers new secrets from Lunar farside
May 16, 2019 (SPX)
A theory emerged in the 1970s that in the moon's infancy, an ocean made of magma covered its surface. As the molten ocean began to calm and cool, lighter minera...
Beresheet Impact Site Spotted
May 16, 2019 (SPX)
SpaceIL, a non-profit organization, attempted to land its spacecraft in this ancient volcanic field on the nearside of the Moon. After a smooth initial descent,...
Shrinking Moon may be generating moonquakes
May 14, 2019 (SPX)
"Our analysis gives the first evidence that these faults are still active and likely producing moonquakes today as the Moon continues to gradually cool and shri...
NASA dubs 2024 Moon mission 'Artemis,' asks for $1.6 billion
May 14, 2019 (AFP)
In March, US President Donald Trump's administration moved the date for the next American lunar mission up by four years from its original goal of 2028 while pl...
Study finds new Luna wrinkles
May 14, 2019 (JPL)
But a survey of more than 12,000 images reveals that at least one lunar mare has been cracking and shifting as much as other parts of the Moon - and may even be...
Lunar tunnel engineers excited by boring Moon colonies
May 10, 2019 (AFP)
"Space is becoming a passion for a lot of people again. There are discussions about going back to the moon, this time to stay," US-Iranian expert Jamal Rostami ...
Amazon's Bezos unveils lunar lander project 'Blue Moon'
May 10, 2019 (AFP)
"This is Blue Moon," the 55-year-old said at a carefully choreographed presentation in Washington, as curtains lifted to show a model of a huge vessel. It will ...
Jeff Bezos says Blue Origin will land humans on moon by 2024
May 09, 2019 (UPI)
The company held a news conference in Washington, D.C., to announce the plan and updated its website with new descriptions and images. "Blue Moon can land multi...
Lunar Power System Team Wins President's Award
May 09, 2019 (SPX)
A team of engineers from NASA and the Department of Energy's National Nuclear Security Administration proved the system in a test called the Kilopower Reactor U...
India aims to be 1st country to land rover on Moon's south pole
May 06, 2019 (Xinhua)
"This is a place where nobody has gone. All the ISRO missions till now to the Moon have landed near the Moon's equator," ISRO Chairman K. Sivan was quoted as sa...
Launch of India's Second Lunar Mission 'Chandrayaan-2' Postponed Yet Again
May 03, 2019 (Sputnik)
"All the modules are getting ready for Chandrayaan-2 launch during the window of 9 July to 16 July 2019, with an expected Moon landing on 6 September 2019," an ...
Rock hits Moon during lunar eclipse
May 01, 2019 (SPX)
Observers watching January's total eclipse of the Moon saw a rare event, a short-lived flash as a meteorite hit the lunar surface. Spanish astronomers now think...
China's Chang'e-4 probe resumes work for fifth lunar day
Apr 30, 2019 (XNA)
The lander woke up at 7:40 a.m. Monday, and the rover, Yutu-2 (Jade Rabbit-2), awoke at 1:45 p.m. Sunday. Both are in normal working condition, according to the...
Magma is the key to the moon's makeup
Apr 30, 2019 (SPX)
Many theorists believe a Mars-sized object slammed into the early Earth, and material dislodged from that collision formed the basis of the moon. When this idea...
China Plans to Build Base Near South Pole Outdoing US Apollo Missions
Apr 29, 2019 (Sputnik)
The aim is quite a departure from what NASA attained as a result of its six successful Apollo missions that landed in close proximity to the Moon's equator, but...
What's on the far side of the Moon?
Apr 29, 2019 (The Conversation)
Only one side of the spherical Moon is ever visible from Earth - it wasn't until 1959 when the Soviet Spacecraft Luna 3 orbited the Moon and sent pictures home ...
NASA accepts challenge of sending American astronauts to Moon in 2024
Apr 23, 2019 (SPX)
"We've been given an ambitious and exciting goal. History has proven when we're given a task by the president, along with the resources and the tools, we can de...
Kennedy Scientist Leading Team to Combat Lunar Dust
Apr 23, 2019 (SPX)
A team at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida may have the solution. The technology launched to the space station April 17, 2019, from Wallops Flight Facilit...
Challenging Ourselves to Create the Next Generation of Lunar Explorers
Apr 16, 2019 (SPX)
While the Beresheet spacecraft can claim many accomplishments, including being the first privately funded lunar spacecraft, we can learn many things from its fa...
Moon's South Pole in NASA's Landing Sites
Apr 16, 2019 (SPX)
Water is a critical resource for long-term exploration, and that's one of the main reasons NASA will send astronauts to the Moon's South Pole by 2024. Water is ...
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