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China aims to explore polar regions of Moon by 2030
Sep 26, 2018 (XNA)
Li Guoping, director of the Department of System Engineering of the CNSA, said at the World Conference on Science Literacy 2018 recently held in Beijing that Ch...
India Aims to Establish Firmest Conclusion of Water, Minerals on Moon's Surface
Sep 25, 2018 (Sputnik)
In its second moon mission, the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) has chosen as landing site above 70-degrees latitude, a location no other country has ...
Russia's Roscosmos Says to Remain Participant of 1st Moon Orbit Station Project
Sep 24, 2018 (Sputnik)
Russia was offered to build an airlock module for discharging cosmonauts on the platform. In April, a source told Sputnik that the Russian side was forced to bu...
Airbus wins ESA studies for future human base in lunar orbit
Sep 20, 2018 (SPX)
Over the next 15 months, Airbus will develop a concept for a habitation and research module as part of the first study (habitat, approximately 6.5 x 4.5 metres ...
Mysterious 'lunar swirls' point to moon's volcanic, magnetic past
Sep 07, 2018 (SPX)
The solution hints at the dynamism of the moon's ancient past as a place with volcanic activity and an internally generated magnetic field. It also challenges o...
US Geological Survey Hopes to Begin Prospecting for Space Mines Soon
Sep 05, 2018 (Sputnik)
The Colorado School of Mines, which offers one of the coolest sounding university degree tracks ever - the Space Resources Program - hosted a Space Resources Ro...
Direct evidence of ice on Moon surface discovered
Aug 24, 2018 (SPX)
"We found that the distribution of ice on the lunar surface is very patchy, which is very different from other planetary bodies such as Mercury and Ceres where ...
There's definitely ice on the lunar poles
Aug 21, 2018 (UPI)
An international team of planetary scientists identified the geochemical signatures of ice among data collected by NASA's Moon Mineralogy Mapper, an instrument ...
Ice confirmed at the Lunar poles
Aug 21, 2018 (SPX)
A team of scientists, led by Shuai Li of the University of Hawaii and Brown University and including Richard Elphic from NASA's Ames Research Center in Californ...
Scientists confirm ice exists at Moon's poles
Aug 21, 2018 (AFP)
Signs of ice on the Moon have been reported by scientists for years, but previous observations could have been explained by other phenomena, such as unusually r...
Bricks from Moon dust
Aug 21, 2018 (ESA)
The surface of the Moon is covered in grey, fine, rough dust. This powdery soil is everywhere - an indigenous source that could become the ideal material for br...
India's Second Moon Mission as Complex as NASA's Apollo Mission
Aug 14, 2018 (Sputnik)
The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) has announced the postponement of its much-awaited second lunar mission - Chandrayaan 2. The mission was expected ...
MIDAS cameras spot pair of lunar flashes caused by meteoroid impacts
Jul 30, 2018 (UPI)
Photographs of the flashes were captured using CCD cameras at a trio of observatories in Spain, which make up the MIDAS project. CCD stands for "charge coupled ...
At 60, NASA shoots for revival of moon glory days
Jul 27, 2018 (AFP)
Since then, the US space agency has seen glorious achievements and crushing failures in its drive to push the frontiers of space exploration, including a fatal ...
Russia may use ISS Modules in Lunar Gateway Project
Jul 18, 2018 (Sputnik)
"Due to the fact that the ISS operation is planned to be terminated in 2024, and the Russian segment is still not completed, there are proposals to complete its...
Israel plans its first moon launch in December
Jul 10, 2018 (AFP)
The unmanned spacecraft, shaped like a pod and weighing some 585 kilogrammes (1,300 pounds) at launch, will land on the moon on February 13, 2019 if all goes ac...
The toxic side of the Moon
Jul 05, 2018 (ESA)
The "lunar hay fever", as NASA astronaut Harrison Schmitt described it during the Apollo 17 mission created symptoms in all 12 people who have stepped on the Mo...
Queqiao satellite the bridge to China's lunar exploration
Jun 25, 2018 (XNA)
It was for this reason that I found myself talking to Zheng Yongchun at Beijing Planetarium. Zheng is an animated interviewee, but that's not to say he shouldn'...
NASA will seek partnership with US Industry to develop lunar gateway
Jun 25, 2018 (SPX)
NASA released a draft solicitation through a Broad Agency Announcement (BAA) June 21, 2018, for proposals for partnership for the first element of the Gateway. ...
Chinese satellite could link world to Moon's far side: space expert
Jun 19, 2018 (XNA)
The relay satellite for Chang'e-4 will establish a communication link between the Earth and the far side of the Moon, and might serve probes from other countrie...
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