MOON - INDO DAILY

Second blue moon of the year is last until 2020

Mar 30, 2018 (UPI)

For the second time this year, a blue moon will appear. The first was in January. Linda Lam, a Weather.com meteorologist, said people living in the South, South...

Roscosmos, NASA to set common standards for first lunar orbit station

Mar 29, 2018 (Sputnik)

"A bilateral working meeting will kick off in Houston on April 9, where Russia will present a report on the work it has done on the lunar station to coordinate ...

Indian space agency postpones second Moon mission to October

Mar 27, 2018 (Sputnik)

"Initially, we had planned an April launch for Chandrayaan-2, but in the review, a meeting held a few days ago with experts from the across the country, it was ...

India to Experiment With Igloo-like Structures on the Moon - Minister

Mar 23, 2018 (Sputnik)

n what could be India's biggest achievement in space exploration, the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) is experimenting with potential structures for l...

New AI mapping algorithm discovers 6,000 new craters on the Moon

Mar 20, 2018 (SPX)

Researchers first trained the neural network on 90,000 images that covered two-thirds of the moon's surface before testing its ability to detect craters on the ...

'Luna City 2175' will take audience to a future community grappling with how to be civilized

Mar 14, 2018 (SPX)

"Luna City: 2175," the title of the seventh annual ASU Emerge, will be a combined art, theater and museum experience that's based on real research about what an...

Scientists Share Ideas for Gateway Activities Near the Moon

Mar 08, 2018 (SPX)

Although it is too early to select specific research for the gateway, the workshop marks the first time in more than a decade the agency's human spaceflight pro...

The moon formed inside a vaporized Earth synestia

Mar 06, 2018 (SPX)

"The new work explains features of the Moon that are hard to resolve with current ideas," said Sarah Stewart, professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences at UC Da...

Research details mineralogy of potential lunar exploration site

Mar 02, 2018 (SPX)

The study, by planetary scientists from Brown University, maps the mineralogy of the South Pole-Aitken (SPA) basin, a gash in the lunar surface with a diameter ...

Study details new story for how the moon formed

Mar 01, 2018 (SPX)

Along with Lock, the study, published February 28 in Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets, is co-authored by Sarah Stewart (UC Davis), Michail Petaev (Harva...

How does water change the moon's origin story?

Feb 28, 2018 (SPX)

For years, scientists thought that in the aftermath of the collision hydrogen dissociated from water molecules and it and other elements that have low boiling t...

On second thought, the Moon's water may be widespread and immobile

Feb 27, 2018 (SPX)

The findings could help researchers understand the origin of the Moon's water and how easy it would be to use as a resource. If the Moon has enough water, and i...

SwRI scientist helps characterize water on lunar surface

Feb 26, 2018 (SPX)

"Water on the Moon is of intense interest for many reasons," said SwRI's Dr. Michael Poston, a coauthor of the paper, "Widespread Distribution of OH/ H2O on the...

Laser-ranged satellite measurement now accurately reflects Earth's tidal perturbations

Feb 21, 2018 (SPX)

The LAser RElativity Satellite (LARES), is the best ever relevant test particle to move in the Earth's gravitational field. In a new study published in EPJ Plus...

NASA's OSIRIS-REx Captures New Earth-Moon Image

Feb 15, 2018 (SPX)

Earth is the largest, brightest spot in the center of the image, with the smaller, dimmer Moon appearing to the right. Several constellations are also visible i...

NASA's Lunar Outpost will Extend Human Presence in Deep Space

Feb 15, 2018 (SPX)

The platform will consist of at least a power and propulsion element and habitation, logistics and airlock capabilities. While specific technical and mission ca...

New study sheds light on moon's slow retreat from frozen Earth

Feb 09, 2018 (SPX)

The research sets parameters on how quickly the Moon could have receded from the Earth and suggests that the nascent planet's hydrosphere was either non-existen...

UCF Seeks New Way to Mine Moon for Water

Feb 08, 2018 (SPX)

Data suggests the moon has water locked away in its icy soil, especially at the moon's poles. The challenge is finding an effective and inexpensive way to get i...

India Prepares For Second Lunar Mission with Chandrayaan-2

Feb 08, 2018 (Sputnik)

The objective for the venture is to explore the lunar south pole. Dubbed Chandrayaan-2, the spacecraft is expected to take an estimated one to two months to rea...

Chinese volunteers spend 200 days on virtual 'moon base'

Jan 26, 2018 (AFP)

Four students crammed into a 160-square-metre (1,720-square-foot) cabin called "Yuegong-1" -- Lunar Palace -- on the campus of Beihang University, testing the l...