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India, Israel among five teams fighting for first private Moon landing
Jan 27, 2017 (Sputnik)
Google and nonprofit company X Prize announced Wednesday that out of 33 original teams, five have secured launch contracts to send spacecraft to the moon. Teams...
China schedules Chang'e-5 lunar probe launch
Jan 24, 2017 (XNA)
China plans to launch the Chang'e-5 lunar probe at the end of November this year, from the Wenchang Space Launch Center in southern China's Hainan Province, abo...
The science behind the Lunar Hydrogen Polar Mapper mission
Jan 19, 2017 (SPX)
Arizona State University's NASA mission to visit a metal asteroid is just beginning, but the first mission that marked the school as a major player in space exp...
Eugene Cernan, last man to walk on moon, dead at 82
Jan 16, 2017 (AFP)
US astronaut Eugene Cernan, the last man to set foot on the moon, died Monday at age 82, NASA and his family announced. Cernan was the spacecraft commander of A...
The moon is older than scientists thought
Jan 13, 2017 (SPX)
A UCLA-led research team reports that the moon is at least 4.51 billion years old, or 40 million to 140 million years older than scientists previously thought. ...
How the Moons That Came Before Collided to Form the Moon
Jan 10, 2017 (SPX)
The Moon, and the question of how it was formed, has long been a source of fascination and wonder. Now, a team of Israeli researchers suggests that the Moon we ...
New map of the Moon under creation in China
Jan 10, 2017 (XNA)
Chinese scientists are drawing a 1:2.5 million scale geological map of the Moon. Ouyang Ziyuan, first chief scientist of China's lunar exploration program, said...
Solar storms could spark soils at moon's poles
Jan 09, 2017 (SPX)
Powerful solar storms can charge up the soil in frigid, permanently shadowed regions near the lunar poles, and may possibly produce "sparks" that could vaporize...
China plans probes to far side, poles of Moon
Dec 28, 2016 (XNA)
China is planning missions to explore the far side of the Moon and to send robots to explore both lunar poles. Plans to send astronauts to the Moon are also bei...
Lunar sonic booms
Dec 14, 2016 (SPX)
The sonic boom created by an airplane comes from the craft's large, speeding body crashing into molecules in the air. But if you shrank the plane to the size of...
TeamIndus signs contract with ISRO for lunar mission
Dec 06, 2016 (IANS)
Domestic space technology startup TeamIndus on Thursday signed a first-of-its-kind contract with the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) to send a TeamInd...
India Inc joins hands to bid for moon mission
Dec 06, 2016 (Sputnik)
An Indian aerospace start-ups's plans to send a mission to moon as part of the Google's Lunar XPRIZE challenge has received a major boost in funding from local ...
Moonwalker Buzz Aldrin stable after South Pole health scare
Dec 01, 2016 (AFP)
Retired astronaut Buzz Aldrin, the second man to walk on the Moon, was recovering in a New Zealand hospital Friday after being medically evacuated from the Sout...
Russian Space Agency Confirms Plans to Implement Lunar Sample-Return Mission
Nov 30, 2016 (Sputnik)
Russia's space agency said that Roscosmos does not intend to abandon the implementation of the Luna-Grunt (Lunar Sample-Return) project aimed at delivering luna...
Skygazers gawp at extra bright 'supermoon'
Nov 14, 2016 (AFP)
Skygazers took to high-rise buildings, observatories and beaches Monday to get a glimpse of the closest "supermoon" to Earth in almost seven decades, and snap d...
There's an 'extra-super' Moon on the rise
Nov 10, 2016 (AFP)
An unusually large and bright Moon will adorn the night sky next Monday - the closest "supermoon" to Earth in 68 years and a chance for dramatic photos and spec...
November 14th's Super-Close Full Moon
Nov 09, 2016 (SPX)
The full Moon on Monday, November 14th, will be a little bigger and brighter than normal, because on that day the Moon will be closer to Earth than it's been in...
China well prepared to launch Chang'e-5 lunar probe in 2017: top scientist
Nov 02, 2016 (XNA)
China is well prepared to launch the Chang'e-5 lunar probe in 2017 to collect and bring back moon rock samples for scientific research, a leading Chinese scient...
New Theory Explains How the Moon Got There
Nov 02, 2016 (SPX)
Earth's moon is an unusual object in our solar system, and now there's a new theory to explain how it got where it is, which puts some twists on the current "gi...
New Model Explains the Moon's Weird Orbit
Nov 02, 2016 (SPX)
The moon, Earth's closest neighbor, is among the strangest planetary bodies in the solar system. Its orbit lies unusually far away from Earth, with a surprising...
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