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China's Chang'e-4 probe resumes work for 24th lunar day

Nov 11, 2020 (XNA)

The lander woke up at 3:12 am Tuesday, Beijing Time, and the rover Yutu-2, or Jade Rabbit-2, woke up at 10:17 am Monday, according to the Lunar Exploration and ...

NASA seeks new partners to help put all eyes on Artemis Moon missions

Nov 06, 2020 (SPX)

The agency has released an Announcement for Proposals calling for submissions of potential partnerships to visually bring the public along for the ride in new w...

Orion is 'Fairing' Well and Moving Ahead Toward Artemis I

Nov 05, 2020 (SPX)

The panels were inspected and moved into place for installation by technicians with Lockheed Martin, the lead contractor for Orion. Once secured, they encapsula...

New mineral discovered in moon meteorite

Nov 04, 2020 (SPX)

Besides the about 382 kilograms of rocks and soils collected by the Apollo and Luna missions, lunar meteorites allow valuable insights into the formation of the...

New remote sensing technique could bring key planetary mineral into focus

Nov 03, 2020 (SPX)

"Olivine is understood to be a major component in the interiors of rocky planets," said Christopher Kremer, a Ph.D. candidate at Brown University and lead autho...

A new mineral from the Moon could explain what happens in the Earth's mantle

Nov 03, 2020 (SPX)

The new mineral donwilhelmsite is the first high-pressure mineral found in meteorites with application for terrestrial sediments dragged deep into the Earth man...

VIPER Rover will get driving headlights

Nov 02, 2020 (SPX)

In the extremes of light and dark found on the Moon, shadowed and lit areas are in such high contrast that any contours in the landscape are effectively invisib...

Testing lunar 4G operations

Oct 30, 2020 (ESA)

NASA has selected Nokia Bell Labs to develop a lunar communications network based on cellular 4G 'Long Term Evolution' (LTE) technology, potentially enabling li...

NASA Crowdsources with HeroX to Find Solutions for Unloading Lunar Goods

Oct 30, 2020 (SPX)

The goal of NASA's Artemis program is to land the first woman and the next man on the surface of the Moon in 2024. By the next decade, NASA hopes to establish a...

AiRANACULUS to demonstrate feasibility of an advanced Lunar comms system

Oct 30, 2020 (SPX)

The contract contributes to the NASA Space Communication and Navigation (SCaN) program's objectives to dramatically increase the performance, efficiency and rel...

NASA, European Space Agency Formalize Artemis Gateway Partnership

Oct 28, 2020 (SPX)

The agreement is a critical part of NASA's efforts to lead an unprecedented global coalition to the Moon. Additional Gateway agreements with other international...

ESA seeking dust-proof materials for lunar return

Oct 28, 2020 (ESA)

"The idea came up that as ESA's going back to the Moon we should look into harnessing the many innovations in the materials field since the Apollo spacesuits we...

Positive signs for Europe as ESA goes forward to the Moon

Oct 28, 2020 (ESA)

It confirms ESA's commitment to delivering at least two European Service Modules that provide electricity, water, oxygen and nitrogen to NASA's Orion spacecraft...

Small water ice reservoirs dot the Lunar surface

Oct 27, 2020 (SPX)

"Future lunar rovers may have a hard time driving into a large dark crater with extremely low temperatures. Small cold traps are far more accessible," Planetary...

Tiny moon shadows may harbor hidden stores of ice

Oct 27, 2020 (SPX)

"If you can imagine standing on the surface of the moon near one of its poles, you would see shadows all over the place," said Paul Hayne, assistant professor i...

China's lunar rover travels 565.9 meters on moon's far side

Oct 27, 2020 (XNA)

The lander was switched to dormant mode at 9:40 pm Friday (Beijing Time) as scheduled, and the rover, Yutu 2 (Jade Rabbit-2), at 12 noon Friday, said the center...

SOFIA discovers water on sunlit surface of Moon

Oct 27, 2020 (SPX)

SOFIA has detected water molecules (H2O) in Clavius Crater, one of the largest craters visible from Earth, located in the Moon's southern hemisphere. Previous o...

NASA, Human Lunar Lander Companies Complete Key Artemis Milestone

Oct 23, 2020 (SPX)

Since then, NASA has worked closely with the Blue Origin-led team, Dynetics, and SpaceX to better understand their human landing system proposals and approach f...

Eagles to land first student project on Moon to snap selfie of Lunar landing

Oct 22, 2020 (SPX)

Ahead of the United States' crewed return to the moon in 2024, the Nova-C Lunar Lander will launch a science and technology payload to a valley in the Ocean of ...

NASA selects intuitive machines to land water-measuring payload on the Moon

Oct 19, 2020 (SPX)

The delivery of the Polar Resources Ice Mining Experiment known as PRIME-1 will help NASA search for ice at the Moon's South Pole and, for the first time, harve...