January 10, 2022 11:21 am
It was the solar wind that contributed to the most humidity of lunar soil as it brought hydrogen that makes up the water, the researchers said.
December 28, 2021 12:30 pm
In May, China became the second country to put a rover on Mars, two years after landing the first spacecraft on the far side of the moon.
October 05, 2021 6:29 pm
The project targets a 2028 launch with a landing in 2033, a five-year journey in which the spacecraft will travel some 3.6 billion kilometers.
September 30, 2021 6:14 pm
How or when the Apollo 17 rock went missing is not clear. It is encased in an acrylic ball that is attached to a wooden plaque with a miniature replica of the state flag and inscriptions.
September 29, 2021 6:17 pm
The new heavy-lift launch vehicle would be capable of putting a 15- to 50-tonne spacecraft on a trajectory to the moon, said Liu Bing, deputy designer at the China Aerospace Science and Technology.
July 13, 2021 4:34 pm
The first "Beresheet" or "Genesis spacecraft" crashed into the moon moments before touchdown in April 2019.
February 10, 2021 11:30 am
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan declared Turkey's aim to send Turkish citizens into space with international cooperation, to work with other countries on building a spaceport and to create a "global brand" in satellite technology.
December 06, 2020 11:01 am
Blue Origin leads a “national team” as the prime contractor that it assembled in 2019 to help build its Blue Moon lander.
September 29, 2020 4:35 pm
If successful in 2024, the UAE could become the fourth nation on the Earth to land a spacecraft on the moon, after the US, the Soviet Union and China.
July 19, 2019 1:07 pm
“We are working right now, in fact, to put together a comprehensive plan on how we would conduct a Mars mission using the technologies that we will be proving at the moon,” Jim Bridenstine, the administrator of the US space agency told reporters on Monday