Moon News
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NASA has launched its crowdsourcing challenge, “Lunar Delivery.” With NASA’s recent discovery of water on the moon, the ability to take goods off of rovers and put them onto the lunar surface is more critical than ever.
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Scientists are investigating whether the Moon is showing signs of rusting as a result of oxygen from Earth. This is due to the detection of the oxidized iron mineral hematite, located at areas of high latitudes on the Moon's surface.
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If humans want to build a Moon base then there will be a limit on the number of materials that can be transported into space. This means that some of the Moon's own resources will be needed, with a little help from the occupants.
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NASA Tournament Lab (NTL) has launched the 'Honey, I Shrunk the NASA Payload' challenge on thecrowdsourcing site, HeroX. The aim is for on innovators across the world to help solve one of their biggest challenges: Moon habitability.
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By AFP
New Delhi -
Indian space scientists were desperately trying Tuesday to establish communication with their broken Moon lander, having located the probe that went silent moments before it was due to make a historic soft landing.
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By AFP
Bangalore -
India's space agency on Saturday lost communication with its spacecraft just before it was due to land near the South Pole of the Moon, in a blow to the nation's lunar ambitions.
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By AFP
Bangalore -
India's space programme suffered a huge setback Saturday after losing contact with an unmanned spacecraft moments before it was due to make a historic soft landing on the Moon.
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London -
A new exhibition at London's National Maritime Museum celebrates humanities relationship with the Earth's only satellite and the historic Apollo mission Moon landings. The displays show how the Moon has exerted a powerful pull on human imagination.
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By AFP
Bangalore -
India's Chandrayaan 2 spacecraft entered lunar orbit on Tuesday, executing one of the trickiest manoeuvres on its historic mission to the Moon.
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By AFP
Koradi -
India on Monday launched a low-cost rocket on a historic bid to put a landing craft on the surface of the Moon and join an elite space force.
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By AFP
Koradi -
Thousands gathered to witness India's second attempt to send a landmark spacecraft to the Moon on Monday, a week after a fuel leak forced the launch to be postponed.
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By AFP
Koradi -
India will make a second attempt Monday to send a landmark spacecraft to the Moon after an apparent fuel leak forced last week's launch to be aborted.
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By AFP
New Delhi -
India will make a new bid to launch a landmark mission to the Moon on Monday, a week after aborting lift-off at the last minute because of a fuel leak, officials said.
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By AFP
Koradi -
A fuel leak in the rocket engine forced India to abort the launch of its landmark Moon mission less than one hour before liftoff, media reports said Tuesday.
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Simi Valley -
On July 15, it was announced that a 50th-anniversary gala that celebrates the Apollo 11 moon landing is held at the Ronald Reagan Library.
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By AFP
Koradi -
Indian space chiefs pressed to quickly set a new date to launch a landmark moon mission after aborting one liftoff Monday just 56 minutes ahead of schedule, media reports said.
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By AFP
Koradi -
India on Monday dramatically scrapped the launch of a rocket that was aiming to land a probe on the Moon less than one hour before blast-off because of a "technical" problem.
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By AFP
Washington -
We've all been there: you're working on something important, your PC crashes, and you lose all your progress.
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Apollo astronaut Charles Duke chatted with Digital Journal about the "Apollo 11- The Immersive Live Show" and his aeronautical career.
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By AFP
Paris -
It was 10:56 pm at mission control in Houston on July 20, 1969 when Neil Armstrong became the first person to step onto the Moon.
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By AFP
Jerusalem -
Israel's attempt at a moon landing failed at the last minute Thursday when the craft suffered an engine failure as it prepared to land and apparently crashed onto the lunar surface.
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By AFP
Jerusalem -
Israel's first spacecraft to the moon was expected to make its historic landing there Thursday, making the Jewish state the fourth and smallest country to complete the trip.The landing is scheduled for around 10:25 pm (1925 GMT).
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By AFP
Washington -
US President Donald Trump said Thursday he is considering a potential third nuclear summit with North Korea's leader.
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By AFP
Washington -
NASA has made it clear they want astronauts back on the Moon in 2024, and now, they are zeroing in on the Red Planet -- the US space agency confirmed that it wants humans to reach Mars by 2033.
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By AFP
Washington -
Donald Trump's administration announced Tuesday it was speeding up plans to send US astronauts back to the Moon, from 2028 to 2024, calling for a "spark of urgency" to prevail over delays that have plagued NASA's lunar return plans.
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By AFP
Bejing -
China's lunar lander has woken from a freezing fortnight-long hibernation to find night-time temperatures on the moon's dark side are colder than previously thought, the national space agency said Thursday.
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By AFP
Bejing -
A small green shoot is growing on the moon in an out-of-this-world first after a cotton seed germinated on board a Chinese lunar lander, scientists said Tuesday.
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By AFP
Bejing -
A Chinese lunar rover has driven on the far side of the moon, the national space agency announced on Friday, hailing the development as a "big step for the Chinese people".
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By AFP
Bejing -
A Chinese lunar rover landed on the far side of the moon on Thursday, in a global first that boosts Beijing's ambitions to become a space superpower.
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NASA has unveiled an ambitious three-stage plan, outlining the agencies next phases for human pace missions. The National Space Exploration Plan, backed by President Trump, includes visits to the Moon and to Mars.
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Moon Image
The image shows the distribution of surface ice at the Moon's south pole (left) and north pole (right), detected by NASA's Moon Mineralogy Mapper instrument. Blue represents the ice locations, plotted over an image of the lunar surface, where the gray scale corresponds to surface temperature (darker representing colder areas and lighter shades indicating warmer zones). NASA/JLP
A look at the Moon with Venus off to the right, the planet itself appeared larger and brighter/clearer than this image depicts
March 26 'conjunction' of Moon-Venus-Jupiter NASA/JPL-Cal-tech (courtesy of Space.com)
The Moon Gregory H. Revera
Pluto’s ‘Hulk-like’ Moon Charon: A Possible Ancient Ocean?
02-18-2016 NASA
Impression of NASA submarine to explore Titan's seas NASA
The artist's illustration of Yutu (Jade Rabbit) rover on the surface of the moon CNSA
LROC WAC color shaded relief of the lunar farside. NASA
New image of Aristillus Crater on the Moon as imaged using radio-astronomy National Radio Astronomy Observatory
The International Space Station flew across the face of the moon over NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida approximately 15 minutes before the launch of space shuttle Discovery on the STS-131 mission NASA
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A key question going forwards - who owns the Moon and who has the right to exploit the resources?
Moon over the Samaran monastery
Crescent Moon March 26, 2012
Screenshot from Bjork's new music video Moon YouTube screenshot
Giant impact hypothesis: collision between two proto-planets of similar chemical composition led to the formation of the Moon. Hagai Perets, Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa
The supermoon taking over the night sky in Toronto on Saturday night. It was 221,802 miles (356,955 kilometers) away and appeared 14 percent larger and 16 percent brighter.
"Blood moon," April, 2014 Alfredo Garcia Jr.
The Moon, tinted reddish, during a lunar eclipse. Alfredo Garcia, Jr.
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