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NASA Seeks Partnership Opportunities For Commercial Lunar Landers

Jan 21, 2014 (SPX)

Building on the progress of NASA's partnerships with the U.S. commercial space industry to develop new spacecraft and rockets capable of delivering cargo, and s...

China's lunar probe observes stars, explores moon

Jan 21, 2014 (XNA)

Moon lander Chang'e-3 and rover "Yutu" of China's lunar probe mission have collected a large amount space observation and moon exploration data, a government au...

Chang'e-3 probe sets out on new missions

Jan 21, 2014 (XNA)

The Chang'e-3 lunar probe has started its long-term scientific missions and will have its durability tested when it continues lunar surface surveys, sources wit...

China's moon rover performs first lunar probe

Jan 19, 2014 (XNA)

China's moon rover "Yutu", or Jade Rabbit, completed its first scientific exploration of lunar soil on Tuesday, the Beijing Aerospace Control Center (BACC) said...

Internet Radio Provides Musical Space-Weather Reports from NASA's LRO Mission

Jan 14, 2014 (SPX)

The latest tool for checking space weather is an internet radio station fed by data from NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, or LRO. The radio station essentia...

India to launch second mission to moon by 2017

Jan 13, 2014 (XNA)

India plans to launch its second mission to moon by 2017 in the wake of the success of its maiden lunar mission. "Chandrayaan-II is a mission where we essential...

Moon rover, lander wake after lunar night

Jan 13, 2014 (XNA)

China's moon rover "Yutu" (Jade Rabbit) and the Chang'e-3 lander have just "woken up" after a period of dormancy that lasted two weeks, or one lunar night, in a...

Wake Up Yutu

Jan 06, 2014 (SPX)

After two weeks of frigid lunar night, China's Yutu Moon rover and the Chang'e-3 lander that carried it will soon awake from their slumber. Surviving the lunar ...

Chang'e-3 satellite payload APXS obtained its first spectrum of lunar regolith

Jan 03, 2014 (SPX)

The Active Particle-induced X-ray Spectrometer (APXS), carried by the Yutu rover of the Chang'e-3 satellite got its first X-ray fluorescence spectrum of lunar r...

Chang'e 3 Lander and Rover From Above

Dec 31, 2013 (SPX)

Chang'e 3 landed on Mare Imbrium (Sea of Rains) just east of a 450 m diameter impact crater on 14 December 2013. Soon after landing, a small rover named Yutu (o...

China's moon rover sleeps through lunar night

Dec 26, 2013 (XNA)

The moon rover and lander of China's Chang'e 3 lunar probe mission will "sleep" during the lunar night, enduring extreme low temperatures on the lunar surface. ...

NASA Releases New Earthrise Simulation Video

Dec 21, 2013 (SPX)

NASA has issued a new visualization of the events leading to one of the iconic photographs of the 20th Century - Earth rising over the moon captured by the crew...

Will the Moon be carved-up?

Dec 20, 2013 (Voice of Russia)

Experts forecast that the Moon will become sort of the seventh continent of Earth by the middle of the 21st century. People will reclaim the polar regions and b...

Most Chang'e-3 science tools activated

Dec 20, 2013 (XNA)

Six out of the eight pieces of scientific equipment deployed to the moon with the Chang'e-3 lunar mission have been activated by scientists and are functioning ...

China's Lunar Lander May Provide Additional Science for NASA Spacecraft

Dec 17, 2013 (SPX)

After sending 12 humans to the moon's surface during the Apollo Program, NASA remains committed to lunar science. Building on modern missions such as Clementine...

China plans to launch Chang'e-5 in 2017

Dec 17, 2013 (XNA)

China plans to launch lunar probe Chang'e-5 in 2017, according to the State Administration of Science, Technology and Industry for National Defense. "The develo...

Mining the moon is pie in the sky for China: experts

Dec 15, 2013 (AFP)

China's moon rover will survey for minerals on a dusty, barren crater named the Bay of Rainbows, but experts say there may be no pot of gold on the Earth's natu...

China's first lunar rover lands on moon

Dec 14, 2013 (AFP)

China on Saturday carried out the first soft landing on the moon since 1976, joining the United States and former Soviet Union in accomplishing the feat, which ...

Ancient crater could hold clues about moon's mantle

Dec 13, 2013 (SPX)

Researchers from Brown University and the University of Hawaii have found some mineralogical surprises in the Moon's largest impact crater. Data from the Moon M...

Minerals in giant impact crater may be clues to moon's makeup, origin

Dec 10, 2013 (UPI)

Mineralogical discoveries in the moon's largest impact crater could yield clues to the evolution of our companion's crust and mantle, U.S. researchers say. The ...