MOON - RADAR DAILY

Dec 01, 2014 (The Conversation)

To date, all human economic activity has depended on the material and energy resources of a single planet; understandably, perhaps. It is conceivable though tha...

Carnegie Mellon Unveils Lunar Rover Andy

Nov 27, 2014 (SPX)

Carnegie Mellon University has unveiled Andy, a four-wheeled robot designed to scramble up steep slopes and survive the temperature swings and high radiation en...

Young Volcanoes on the Moon

Nov 26, 2014 (SPX)

Back in 1971, Apollo 15 astronauts orbiting the Moon photographed something very odd. Researchers called it "Ina," and it looked like the aftermath of a volcani...

Russia Preparing Joint Moon Exploration Agreement With EU

Nov 25, 2014 (Sputnik)

Scientists from Russia and the European Union are preparing an agreement on joint exploration of the Moon, Lev Zelyony, director of the Space Research Institute...

U.K. group to crowd-source funding for moon mission

Nov 19, 2014 (UPI)

A group in the United Kingdom aims to launch a lunar probe and study the moon using money raised on crowd-funding website Kickstarter. Lunar Mission One is curr...

After Mars, India space chief aims for the moon

Nov 11, 2014 (AFP)

India now has its sights set on low-budget missions to the moon and the sun after becoming the first country in Asia to reach Mars, the head of its space agency...

China gears up for lunar mission after round-trip success

Nov 04, 2014 (XNA)

The head of China's lunar probe program has called for a thorough analysis of data collected from the test lunar orbiter, which returned Saturday, to speed up w...

China examines the three stages of lunar test run

Nov 04, 2014 (XNA)

China's experimental lunar orbiter, which blasted off just over a week ago, entered the moon's orbit as part of an eight-day mission. The trial run paves the wa...

NASA's LRO Spacecraft Captures Images of LADEE's Impact Crater

Oct 30, 2014 (SPX)

NASA'S Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) spacecraft has spied a new crater on the lunar surface; one made from the impact of NASA's Lunar Atmosphere and Dust E...

New lunar mission to test Chang'e-5 technology

Oct 24, 2014 (XNA)

China will launch a new lunar mission this week to test technology likely to be used in Chang'e-5, a future lunar probe with the ability to return to Earth. The...

Next Chinese mission to moon will return to Earth

Oct 24, 2014 (RIA Novosti)

This week China will launch a new lunar orbiter, which, in contrast with previous space probes, will return to Earth after orbiting the Moon, China's official X...

Russia to make Moon exploration core part of space program

Oct 14, 2014 (XNA)

Russia will take the Moon exploration as a core of its space program for the next decade, Federal Space Agency Roscosmos said Friday. "This year Roscosmos has p...

Moon hosted small volcanic eruptions during last 50 million years

Oct 14, 2014 (UPI)

Scientists have known the moon once hosted dozens of volcanos and oozing magmatic vents. More recently, researchers credited this ancient volcanic activity with...

China's ailing moon rover weakening

Oct 14, 2014 (XNA)

China's ailing moon rover Yutu has entered its 11th dormancy as the lunar night falls, with its functions degrading gracefully, its designer said Friday. The ro...

New Batch of Lunar Soil to be Delivered to Earth in 2023-2025

Oct 14, 2014 (RIA Novosti)

New samples of lunar soil will be delivered to Earth in 2023-2025, an official from a Russian aerospace company said Friday. "The program currently has four mis...

NASA Mission Finds Widespread Evidence of Young Lunar Volcanism

Oct 14, 2014 (SPX)

NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) has provided researchers strong evidence the moon's volcanic activity slowed gradually instead of stopping abruptly a ...

Russian Luna-25 Mission to Cost Billions

Oct 14, 2014 (RIA Novosti)

The Luna-25 exploration mission will cost tens of billions of rubles, an official from Russian Federal Space Agency said Friday. "Let's say, we are talking tens...

Researchers: Volcanoes on the moon recently active

Oct 13, 2014 (UPI)

Data collected by NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter indicates moon volcanoes were active more recently than previously thought, researchers said. John Keller,...

Solving the mystery of the 'man in the moon'

Oct 06, 2014 (SPX)

New data obtained by NASA's GRAIL mission reveals that the Procellarum region on the near side of the moon - a giant basin often referred to as the "man in the ...

Origin of moon's 'ocean of storms' revealed

Oct 03, 2014 (SPX)

Oceanus Procellarum, a vast dark patch visible on the western edge of the Moon's near side, has long been a source of mystery for planetary scientists. Some hav...