Moon
Last Kaguya HDTV Images Before Impact
[/caption] The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) has released the final still images taken by the onboard High Definition Television…
NASA IBEX Spacecraft Detects Neutral Hydrogen Bouncing Off Moon
[/caption] NASA's Interstellar Boundary Explorer (IBEX) spacecraft has made the first observations of fast hydrogen atoms coming from the moon,…
LRO/LCROSS Ready for Launch to the Moon
[/caption] NASA is going back to the Moon today! The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) and a piggyback mission called the…
More Photos From the Lunar Time Machine
[/caption] More images have been released by the Lunar Orbiter Imagery Recovery Project (LOIRP), the endeavor that has been called…
LRO/LCROSS Gives Up Launch Date for STS-127
It's a crowded dance floor and someone had to step aside. Because of Saturday's launch delay for STS-127, the shuttle…
Kaguya Will Impact the Moon on June 10
[/caption] The Japanese lunar orbiter Kaguya will end its two-year mission with a controlled impact on the Moon's surface on…
Ice on the Moon? NASA, ISRO May Collaborate to Find Out
[/caption] The debate has endured since the early 1960's: could there be water ice hiding in deep, dark craters near…
China Looking Towards Manned Lunar Landing
[/caption] A Chinese space scientist said that his country is considering the feasibility of a manned lunar landing mission sometime…
Dual Purpose “Blanket” Could Protect Astronauts, Generate Power on Moon
[/caption] If we're ever going to set up bases on the Moon for long-term – or even short term --…
Spacecraft Searching for Remains of Mystery Planet
[/caption] How did our Moon form? The leading hypothesis, the Giant Impact Theory, proposes that in the formative years of…