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Dec 26, 2012 (UPI)

Russian space company Energia has completed the technical design of a manned spacecraft whose flight tests would be initiated in 2017, company officials say. "W...

GRAIL Lunar Impact Site Named for Astronaut Sally Ride

Dec 18, 2012 (JPL)

NASA has named the site where twin agency spacecraft impacted the moon Monday in honor of the late astronaut Sally K. Ride, who was America's first woman in spa...

Rocket Burn Sets Stage for Dynamic Moon Duos' Lunar Impact

Dec 17, 2012 (JPL)

The lunar twins of NASA's Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory (GRAIL) mission have each completed a rocket burn that has sealed their fate. The burns modif...

NASA probes crash into the moon

Dec 17, 2012 (AFP)

Two NASA probes crashed into the moon on Monday after spending months gathering data by orbiting miles above the lunar surface, the US space agency said. The si...

No plans of sending an Indian on moon

Dec 17, 2012 (IANS)

India has no plans to put an astronaut on the moon, as of now. Minister of State in the Prime Minister's Office V Narayanasamy in the Rajya Sabha on Thursday sa...

NASA Gravity Probes Prepare to Hit the Moon

Dec 14, 2012 (SPX)

A pair of NASA spacecraft that have been studying the Moon's gravitational field are being prepared for a controlled descent into a mountain near the Moon's nor...

Apollo's Lunar Dust Data Being Restored

Dec 12, 2012 (SPX)

Forty years after the last Apollo spacecraft launched, the science from those missions continues to shape our view of the moon. In one of the latest development...

To the moon and back for less than 2 billion dollars

Dec 06, 2012 (AFP)

Two former top NASA officials unveiled plans Thursday to sell manned flights to the moon by the end of the decade, in an announcement 40 years after the last hu...

NASA's GRAIL Creates Most Accurate Moon Gravity Map

Dec 06, 2012 (SPX)

Twin NASA probes orbiting Earth's moon have generated the highest resolution gravity field map of any celestial body. The new map, created by the Gravity Recove...

Chinese astronauts may grow veg on Moon

Dec 04, 2012 (XNA)

Chinese astronauts may get fresh vegetables and oxygen supplies by gardening in extraterrestrial bases in the future, an official said after a just-concluded la...

WSU researchers use 3-D printer to make parts from moon rock

Dec 03, 2012 (SPX)

Imagine landing on the moon or Mars, putting rocks through a 3-D printer and making something useful - like a needed wrench or replacement part. "It sounds like...

China's Chang'e-3 to land on moon next year

Nov 13, 2012 (XNA)

China will launch its latest lunar satellite in the second half of next year, the Chang'e-3, paving the way for a future manned moon landing, a senior space ind...

Moon crater yields impact clues

Nov 06, 2012 (UPI)

NASA scientists say an almost perfectly preserved crater on the moon should yield clues to the evolution of impact craters on Earth and other rocky bodies. The ...

Study: Moon basin formed by giant impact

Oct 29, 2012 (UPI)

A flattened 1,800-mile-wide section of the moon was likely caused by a collision with an asteroid the size of Austria, Japanese researchers say. Scientists at t...

NASA's LADEE Spacecraft Gets Final Science Instrument Installed

Oct 26, 2012 (SPX)

Engineers at NASAs Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, Calif., have installed the third and final science instrument that will fly onboard NASA's Lunar Atmosph...

Astrium presents results of its study into automatic landing near the Moon's south pole

Oct 25, 2012 (SPX)

What technologies are needed to ensure a safe, accurate Moon landing and in-situ lunar research? Astrium is currently investigating this question in Lunar Lande...

European mission to search for moon water

Oct 22, 2012 (UPI)

A European mission to the moon will search for signs of water that could allow future astronauts to set up habitats on its surface, scientists say. Planned for ...

Massive planetary collision may have zapped key elements from moon

Oct 18, 2012 (SPX)

Fresh examinations of lunar rocks gathered by Apollo mission astronauts have yielded new insights about the moon's chemical makeup as well as clues about the gi...

Proof at last: Moon was created in giant smashup

Oct 18, 2012 (SPX)

It's a big claim, but Washington University in St. Louis planetary scientist Frederic Moynier says his group has discovered evidence that the Moon was born in a...

Model reconciles Lunar Earth composition with giant impact theory

Oct 18, 2012 (SPX)

The giant impact believed to have formed the Earth-Moon system has long been accepted as canon. However, a major challenge to the theory has been that the Earth...