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55-year old dark side of the moon mystery solved
Jun 11, 2014 (SPX)
The Man in the Moon appeared when meteoroids struck the Earth-facing side of the moon creating large flat seas of basalt that we see as dark areas called maria....
New evidence supporting moon formation via collision of 2 planets
Jun 09, 2014 (SPX)
A new series of measurements of oxygen isotopes provides increasing evidence that the Moon formed from the collision of the Earth with another large, planet-siz...
NASA Missions Let Scientists See Moon's Dancing Tide From Orbit
May 30, 2014 (SPX)
Scientists combined observations from two NASA missions to check out the moon's lopsided shape and how it changes under Earth's sway - a response not seen from ...
Water in moon rocks provides clues and questions about lunar history
May 29, 2014 (SPX)
A recent review of hundreds of chemical analyses of Moon rocks indicates that the amount of water in the Moon's interior varies regionally - revealing clues abo...
NASA Invites Public to Select Favorite Moon Image for Lunar Orbiter Anniversary Collection
May 27, 2014 (SPX)
NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) will celebrate five years in orbit June 18. To celebrate the anniversary and LRO's many scientific contributions, NASA...
Russia to begin Moon colonization in 2030
May 12, 2014 (Voice of Russia)
Russia will start colonizing the Moon in 2030, Izvestia daily reported on Thursday. The daily has received a draft concept of Russian lunar program developed by...
LRO View of Earth
May 12, 2014 (SPX)
NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) experiences 12 "earthrises" every day, however LROC (short for LRO Camera) is almost always busy imaging the lunar sur...
Astrobotic Partners With NASA To Develop Robotic Lunar Landing Capability
May 05, 2014 (SPX)
Astrobotic Technology has announced a new partnership with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) for development of robotic lunar landing cap...
John C. Houbolt, Unsung Hero of the Apollo Program, Dies at Age 95
Apr 22, 2014 (SPX)
"In the space race of the 1950s and '60s, the leading voices were rocket scientist Wernher von Braun and ... another guy. Household names included Neil Armstron...
NASA Completes LADEE Mission with Planned Impact on Moon's Surface
Apr 19, 2014 (SPX)
Ground controllers at NASA's Ames Research Center in Moffett Field, Calif., have confirmed that NASA's Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer (LADEE) sp...
Russia plans to get a foothold in the Moon
Apr 15, 2014 (Voice of Russia)
Russia plans to organize a permanent base on the moon rather than leave it after several successful missions, the Russian deputy defense minister in charge of d...
Russian Federal Space Agency is elaborating Moon exploration program
Apr 09, 2014 (Voice of Russia)
The Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos) has created a team of specialists, which will elaborate the Moon program. The scientists plan to launch three space...
Take the Plunge: LADEE Impact Challenge
Apr 07, 2014 (SPX)
NASA's Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer (LADEE) spacecraft is gradually lowering its orbital altitude over the moon. LADEE will continue to make i...
Land a Lunar Laser Reflector Now!
Apr 04, 2014 (SPX)
As we consider the next spacecraft to land on the Moon, let's not overlook an increasing problem in scientific research. The laser reflectors already on the Moo...
New research finds 'geologic clock' that helps determine moon's age
Apr 04, 2014 (SPX)
An international team of planetary scientists determined that the Moon formed nearly 100 million years after the start of the solar system, according to a paper...
Misleading mineral may have resulted in overestimate of water in moon
Apr 02, 2014 (SPX)
The amount of water present in the moon may have been overestimated by scientists studying the mineral apatite, says a team of researchers led by Jeremy Boyce o...
Scientists date Moon at 4.470 billion years
Apr 02, 2014 (AFP)
The Moon was formed about 95 million years after the birth of our Solar System, in a collision that also settled the structure of Earth as we know it, according...
A Wet Moon
Mar 26, 2014 (SPX)
The Moon's status as a "dry" rock in space has long been questioned. Competing theories abound as to the source of the H20 in the lunar soil, including delivery...
Expeditions to the Moon: beware of meteorites
Mar 25, 2014 (Voice of Russia)
Experts say that future expeditions to the Moon may face quite a few dangers. One of them is meteorite attacks. The Moon has practically no atmosphere that woul...
ASU camera creates stunning mosaic of moon's polar region
Mar 25, 2014 (SPX)
the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera (LROC), run by the Arizona State University-based team under professor Mark Robinson, released what very well may be the...
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