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The Moon now has hundreds of artifacts. Should they be protected?

Jul 11, 2019 (AFP)

Some experts are calling to grant them heritage status to protect them from future tourists and human activity. It all started on September 13, 1959 when Soviet...

China's Chang'e-4 probe switches to dormant mode

Jul 11, 2019 (XNA)

The scientific instruments on the Chang'e-4 probe worked well during the seventh lunar day after the probe made the first-ever soft-landing on the Von Karman Cr...

Modeling early meteorite impacts on the moon

Jul 11, 2019 (SPX)

Despite their common origin there are curious differences between the Earth and moon. Elements such as gold, iridium, platinum and palladium (known as highly si...

Astrobotic Awarded $5.6 Million NASA Contract to Deliver Autonomous Moon Rover

Jul 08, 2019 (SPX)

The 13 kilogram autonomous rover known as MoonRanger, is being developed to provide high fidelity 3D maps of the Moon's surface in areas such as polar regions a...

How visions of the Moon inspired centuries of storytellers

Jul 08, 2019 (AFP)

But even after they transformed fantasy into fact, it is a place that continues to capture the imagination of storytellers, as it has for centuries. Literature,...

How conspiracy theories followed man to the Moon

Jul 08, 2019 (AFP)

Millions of people across the world still believe that no one has ever walked on the Moon, and that the images that NASA broadcast in July 1969 were shot in a H...

Scientists scramble to build payload for 2021 lunar landing

Jul 03, 2019 (SPX)

NASA announced on Monday that it has selected 12 scientific payloads to fly aboard three lunar landing missions within the next few years. One of them will be t...

New camera system to offer high-resolution images, video of lunar landing

Jul 03, 2019 (SPX)

The Heimdall camera system project, headed by Planetary Science Institute Senior Scientist R. Aileen Yingst, consists of four color cameras and a DVR to store i...

NASA tests launch-abort system for moon-mission capsule

Jul 02, 2019 (AFP)

The three-minute exercise at Cape Canaveral in Florida aimed to test in almost real-life conditions the evacuation of astronauts from the capsule in the event o...

Centuries of Moon depictions on display in New York

Jul 01, 2019 (AFP)

The Met will unveil its "Apollo's Muse: The Moon in the Age of Photography" on Wednesday, approximately two weeks before of the five-decade mark since the 1969 ...

Guardians of Apollo: the curators preserving the Moon mission's legacy

Jun 29, 2019 (AFP)

You can hardly tell they made a trip to the Moon and back 50 years ago. To their side is the slightly yellowed "Snoopy Cap" (formally known as a "communications...

China's Chang'e-4 probe resumes work for 7th lunar day

Jun 28, 2019 (XNA)

The lander woke up at 9:45 a.m. Thursday, and the rover, Yutu-2 (Jade Rabbit-2), awoke at 1:26 p.m. Wednesday. Both are in normal working condition, according t...

ESA testing lunar rescue device tested underwater at NASA's NEEMO 23

Jun 21, 2019 (ESA)

ESA's Lunar Evacuation System Assembly (LESA) is a pyramid-like structure designed to be deployed by a single astronaut in lunar gravity to rescue an incapacita...

NASA selects Caltech-led Lunar mission as SmallSat finalist

Jun 21, 2019 (SPX)

The Lunar Trailblazer would follow up on one of the most surprising discoveries of the late 2000s: the detection of water on the Moon's surface, long thought im...

Ions Beams and Atom Smashers Expose Secrets of Moon Rocks

Jun 19, 2019 (SPX)

Fifty years after the Apollo astronauts collected samples of Moon rocks and dust during their forays across the lunar landscape, there are still mysteries to be...

Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter marks 10 years mapping Moon

Jun 19, 2019 (SPX)

In addition, LRO would map the polar regions and search for the presence of water ice. Its primary mission was to last only one year. LRO was launched from Cape...

NASA Reflects on Legacy of LRO as Moon-Orbiting Mission Reaches 10-Year Anniversary

Jun 19, 2019 (SPX)

The diverse suite of instruments aboard LRO include a laser altimeter that fires pulses of light about 28 times per second, creating one of the most accurate to...

Politics, lack of support, funding have foiled US plans to return to moon

Jun 18, 2019 (UPI)

Neither the United States nor any nation on Earth has sent a manned mission to the moon since NASA's Apollo 17 mission left in late 1972. While the space admini...

NASA to Partner with American Industry to Supply Artemis Moon Missions

Jun 17, 2019 (SPX)

The first logistics service to the orbital outpost is expected to deliver science, cargo and other supplies in support of the agency's new Artemis lunar explora...

Apollo moon rocks help transform understanding of the universe

Jun 16, 2019 (AFP)

What is certain is that the lunar samples first gathered by Apollo 11's Neil Armstrong nearly 50 years ago have helped transform our understanding of the cosmos...