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India's Chandrayaan-2 images Sarabhai Crater
Aug 14, 2020 (Sputnik)
India's Space Research Organisation (ISRO) on Wednesday shared images of vast lava plains creating a near flat surface on the Moon, captured by the Terrain Mapp...
Russian Cosmonauts Could Be Going to the Moon Without a Super-Heavy Launch Vehicle
Jul 27, 2020 (Sputnik)
Korolev Rocket and Space Corporation Energia has created and patented a means to fly cosmonauts to the Moon and back without an expensive new heavy-launch rocke...
Study reveals composition of gel-like lunar substance
Jul 23, 2020 (SPX)
A research team led by Prof. DI Kaichang from the Aerospace Information Research Institute (AIR) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and their collaborators anal...
Aerojet Rocketdyne completes its propulsion for NASA's Artemis II mission
Jul 21, 2020 (SPX)
The Artemis II mission is the second flight of SLS and Orion and the first to send an astronaut crew to fly around the Moon. "These are very exciting times for ...
Russia's Trailblazing Lunar Lander Mission to be Launch-Tested With US Equipment
Jul 20, 2020 (Sputnik)
The launch readiness of equipment installed on Luna-25, the first lunar lander mission from the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos) in the country's modern...
Solar power investigation to launch on lunar lander
Jul 17, 2020 (SPX)
Next summer, a solar power experiment designed by a team of investigators at NASA's Glenn Research Center will launch to the Moon on Astrobotic's Peregrine Land...
China's Chang'e 4 probe resumes work for 20th lunar day
Jul 16, 2020 (XNA)
The lander woke up at 5:48 am Wednesday (Beijing Time), and the rover awoke at 12:53 pm Tuesday. Both are in normal working order, according to the Lunar Explor...
Who's ready to serve the lunar missions
Jul 15, 2020 (ESA)
Efforts to explore the Moon have substantially grown recently, partly because it is a convenient place to develop the technologies and capabilities needed for p...
A slightly younger Moon
Jul 13, 2020 (SPX)
The previous assumptions about the formation of the Moon were based on an age of 4.51 billion years - that, is 85 million years earlier than the new calculation...
Nature of Enigmatic Substance Found on Far Side of the Moon Uncovered by Scientists
Jul 09, 2020 (Sputnik)
Chinese scientists have revealed the analysis of a strange substance that the Yutu-2 lunar rover discovered on the moon last year, space.com reports. The substa...
NASA Increases Investment in US Small Businesses to Mature Lunar Capabilities for Artemis
Jul 09, 2020 (SPX)
By awarding the companies with follow-on funds - an expected combined value of approximately $17 million - NASA's small business program will accelerate the dev...
Scientists identify 'gel-like' substance Chinese rover found on the moon
Jul 09, 2020 (UPI)
Through an analysis of the images and comparison with Apollo samples on earth, researchers found that the substance was rock -- and more specifically, rock that...
Metals in lunar craters provide new insights to its origin
Jul 02, 2020 (SPX)
The popular hypothesis contends that the Moon was formed by a Mars-sized body colliding with Earth's upper crust which is poor in metals. But new research sugge...
Radar points to Moon being more metallic than researchers thought
Jul 02, 2020 (SPX)
Team members of the Miniature Radio Frequency (Mini-RF) instrument on NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) spacecraft found new evidence that the Moon's su...
China's lunar rover travels about 463 meters on moon's far side
Jun 30, 2020 (XNA)
Both the lander and the rover of the Chang'e-4 probe have just ended their work for the 19th lunar day, and switched to the dormant mode for the lunar night due...
Stronger materials vital for lunar plans
Jun 26, 2020 (XNA)
With sporadic political interest in space development and research throughout history, new breakthroughs in the field are a welcome relief to a sector that is o...
To boldly go: NASA launches Lunar Loo challenge
Jun 26, 2020 (AFP)
Including astronauts, who have since the early space era found ways to do their business in near-zero gravity -- from the Apollo missions when waste management ...
Scientists provide new explanation for the far side of the Moon's strange asymmetry
Jun 23, 2020 (SPX)
New data suggest this is because radioactive elements were distributed uniquely after the catastrophic Moon- forming collision. Earth's Moon, together with the ...
Final Frontier Design awarded multiple NASA lunar xEMU Space Suit contracts
Jun 22, 2020 (SPX)
The xEMU Lunar space suit will be used in the Artemis mission, the first US planetary space mission since Apollo. The development awards include the Lunar xEMU ...
NASA invites competitors to shoot for the moon and beyond
Jun 16, 2020 (SPX)
The Cube Quest Challenge, NASA's first in-space competition, incentivizes teams to design, build and deliver small satellites capable of advanced operations nea...
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