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Death rumors of Russian lunar program 'greatly exaggerated' - Deputy PM

Dec 31, 2015 (Sputnik)

Russia's deputy prime minister refuted rumors that the country's lunar program is in a crisis, saying that it in fact is far from being cut. Russia has not drop...

Russia Postpones Plans on Extensive Moon Exploration Until 2025

Dec 30, 2015 (Sputnik)

The Russian space agency Roscosmos will give up on manned flights to the Moon and related activities at least until 2025, the Russian Izvestia newspaper reporte...

Rare full moon on Christmas Day

Dec 21, 2015 (SPX)

Not since 1977 has a full moon dawned in the skies on Christmas. But this year, a bright full moon will be an added gift for the holidays. December's full moon,...

LADEE Mission Shows Force of Meteoroid Strikes on Lunar Exosphere

Dec 21, 2015 (SPX)

NASA scientists have released new findings about the Moon's tenuous exosphere - the thin layer of gas surrounding the Moon that is one 25-trillionth the density...

XPRIZE verifies moon express launch contract, kicking off new space race

Dec 10, 2015 (SPX)

Moon Express has received official verification of their launch contract from XPRIZE as part of the $30M Google Lunar XPRIZE, a global competition for privately...

SwRI scientists explain why moon rocks contain fewer volatiles than Earth's

Nov 10, 2015 (SPX)

Scientists at Southwest Research Institute combined dynamical, thermal, and chemical models of the Moon's formation to explain the relative lack of volatile ele...

Gaia's sensors scan a lunar transit

Nov 09, 2015 (ESA)

Located 1.5 million km from the Earth, ESA's Gaia spacecraft is scanning the sky to conduct the most detailed census of stars in our Galaxy. However, on 6 Novem...

Russian moon mission would need 4 Angara-A5V launches

Oct 30, 2015 (Sputnik)

Organizing for Russian cosmonauts to fly to the Moon will require four launches of Angara-?5V heavy-class carrier rockets during the initial stage of the missio...

Study reveals origin of organic matter in Apollo lunar samples

Oct 29, 2015 (SPX)

A team of NASA-funded scientists has solved an enduring mystery from the Apollo missions to the moon - the origin of organic matter found in lunar samples retur...

All-female Russian crew starts Moon mission test

Oct 28, 2015 (AFP)

Six Russian women on Wednesday clambered into a mock spaceship to begin a unique experiment testing how an all-female crew would interact on a trip to the Moon ...

Russia touts plan to land a man on the Moon by 2029

Oct 28, 2015 (Sputnik)

A manned lunar landing by Russian cosmonauts is planned for 2029, the head of the Russian Space Agency Energia said Tuesday. "A manned flight to the moon and lu...

Watch worn by US astronaut on Moon sells for $1.6 mn

Oct 23, 2015 (AFP)

An exceptionally rare watch worn by an American astronaut on the Moon which bears remnants of lunar material has sold for more than $1.6 million, a US auction h...

Europe-Russia Lunar mission will make them friends again

Oct 21, 2015 (Sputnik)

Despite the current freeze in relations between Russia and the West, the European Space Agency (ESA) and its Russian counterpart, Roscosmos, plan to launch a pr...

Mound near lunar south pole formed by unique volcanic process

Oct 16, 2015 (SPX)

A giant mound near the Moon's south pole appears to be a volcanic structure unlike any other found on the lunar surface, according to new research by Brown Univ...

Lunar Pox

Oct 07, 2015 (ESA)

The pockmarked landscape captured in this image from ESA's SMART-1 mission is the surface of our Moon. Some of the many craters scattered across the lunar surfa...

Space startup confirms plans for robotic moon landings

Oct 03, 2015 (UPI)

California-based space exploration startup Moon Express has signed a deal with Rocket Lab to commence a series of lunar launches starting in 2017. CEO Bob Richa...

Asteroids found to be the moon's main 'water supply'

Oct 02, 2015 (SPX)

Water reserves found on the moon are the result of asteroids acting as "delivery vehicles" and not of falling comets as was previously thought. Using computer s...

Russian scientist hope to get rocket fuel, water, oxygen from Lunar ice

Sep 28, 2015 (Sputnik)

Russian scientists are currently studying lunar ice, hoping to get hydrogen rocket fuel, water and oxygen from the moon, Igor Mitrofanov from the Russian Academ...

NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter's Dance with Eclipses

Sep 23, 2015 (SPX)

On the evening of Sept. 27, 2015, into the early morning of Sept. 28 EDT, operators of NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) will wait as Earth blots out th...

China to rehearse new carrier rocket for lunar mission

Sep 22, 2015 (XNA)

A Long March-5 carrier rocket on Sunday was shipped from North China's Tianjin port for a rehearsal of a scheduled Chang'e-5 lunar mission around 2017. It will ...