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The distance to the Moon and the length of the day 2.46 billion years ago
Oct 13, 2022 (SPX)
In their study, the team of scientists affiliated with Utrecht University, the University of Geneva and the University of Quebec in Montreal looked at a very an...
NASA to Practice Artemis Moonwalking, Roving Operations in Arizona Desert
Oct 10, 2022 (SPX)
The Arizona desert possesses many characteristics that are analogous to a lunar environment including challenging terrain, interesting geology, and minimal comm...
Wanted: firms to connect and guide Moon missions
Oct 10, 2022 (ESA)
Creating lasting telecommunications and navigation links with the Moon will enable sustainable space exploration for the hundreds of lunar missions that are due...
Chang'e-5 reveals intermediate stage in space weathering process of lunar soil
Oct 10, 2022 (SPX)
To avoid possible chemical contamination and ion-bombing-induced amorphization, they do not employ the focused ion beam (FIB) to cut the bulk samples except gla...
CAPSTONE reports 'Initial Recovery Successful' for lunar orbiter
Oct 10, 2022 (SPX)
The partially open valve resulted in thrust from the associated thruster whenever the propulsion system was pressurized. To attempt a recovery from this conditi...
Swedish space instrument will study the Moon on board a Turkish spacecraft
Oct 06, 2022 (SPX)
The agreement between IRF and the Turkish Space Technologies Research Institute (Tubitak Uzay) means that Swedish space researchers will once again have the opp...
Moon science generation
Oct 06, 2022 (ESA)
This week, however, 23 of these interns finally got their opportunity to visit the home of Europe's Astronaut corps. The interns had been working on a range of ...
Supercomputer simulations reveal new possibilities for the Moon's origin
Oct 06, 2022 (SPX)
The researchers created the highest resolution simulations yet produced to study the Moon's origin 4.5 billion years ago. They used the SWIFT open-source simula...
Giant impact could have formed the Moon more rapidly, scientists reveal in new simulations
Oct 06, 2022 (SPX)
The researchers simulated hundreds of different impacts, varying the angle and speed of the collision as well as the masses and spins of the two colliding bodie...
Lunar glass shows Moon asteroid impacts mirrored on Earth
Sep 29, 2022 (SPX)
The study also found that major impact events on Earth were not stand-alone events, but were accompanied by a series of smaller impacts, shedding new light on a...
Join the challenge to explore the Moon
Sep 25, 2022 (SPX)
The Machine Learning Lunar Data Challenge is open to students, researchers and professionals in areas related to planetary sciences, but also to anyone with exp...
Small craters add up to wandering poles on Moon
Sep 21, 2022 (SPX)
But instead of directly studying the characteristics of these holes, a team based at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, decided to try s...
Orbital Assembly and CisLunar Industries sign collaboration agreement
Sep 21, 2022 (SPX)
The Pioneer-classTM, the world's first and largest hybrid space stations for both work and play, will be the first free-flying, habitable, privately operated fa...
NASA pursues astronaut Lunar Landers for future Artemis missions
Sep 18, 2022 (SPX)
Under the solicitation, Human Landing System Sustaining Lunar Development, NASA has provided requirements for companies interested in developing and demonstrati...
Chinese scientists discover history of volcanic eruptions in Chang'e-5 landing region
Sep 18, 2022 (XNA)
China's Chang'e-5 mission brought a total of 1,731 grams of lunar samples back to Earth at the end of 2020. The landing region of the mission on the northwest r...
Communications restored with CAPSTONE in latest update
Sep 16, 2022 (SPX)
Over the past few days, CAPSTONE's power - though limited by the orientation of the spacecraft in its spin relative to the Sun - appears to be sufficient for he...
Study looks at how water got on the moon
Sep 13, 2022 (XNA)
But where did water on the moon come from? Answering that question can help us understand the moon's history and evolution, but also allow future engineers to p...
WVU and NASA plant the seed for STEM among youth in Plant the Moon Challenge
Sep 13, 2022 (SPX)
On Friday (Sept. 9), Vice President Kamala Harris, in her role as chair of the National Space Council, announced new NASA funding for several projects aimed at ...
New mineral found by Chinese scientists
Sep 12, 2022 (XNA)
The China National Space Administration and the China Atomic Energy Authority jointly announced in Beijing on Friday that the new mineral-Changesite-(Y)-was fou...
Circalunar clocks: Using the right light
Sep 12, 2022 (SPX)
Their findings, published in Nature Communications, show that L-Cry can interpret moonlight to entrain the monthly (circalunar) clock of a marine worm to contro...
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