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Three astronauts complete tenth PANGAEA field geology course ahead of lunar missions
Oct 05, 2026 (SPX)
Three astronauts from ESA, NASA and the Japanese space agency have completed the 10th edition of PANGAEA, the European Space Agency's field geology training cou...
Strength of colliding planets decides whether Moon formed intact or from debris disk
Oct 05, 2026 (SPX)
New simulations led by Southwest Research Institute indicate that the Moon may have formed in more than one way from the giant impact that produced the Earth-Mo...
Lunar dust control moves from lab to Moon as crewed landings near
Oct 05, 2026 (SPX)
Engineers preparing for long stays on the Moon now have flight data showing that electric fields can clear lunar dust from hardware, but NASA technology planner...
Lunar polar water too scarce to sustain a city of one million study finds
Oct 05, 2026 (SPX)
A city of one million people at the lunar poles would exhaust the Moon's water ice in just over a century, even under the most generous assumptions about supply...
Four new findings frame water, dust, shelter and bone risks for long stays on the Moon
Oct 05, 2026 (SPX)
Four pieces of research and one NASA selection published between Sept. 14 and Oct. 1, 2026 each address a different limit on how long people can live on the Moo...
NASA picks surface geophysics mission to probe for cave beneath lunar pit
Oct 02, 2026 (SPX)
NASA has selected a proposal led by the Planetary Science Institute to find out whether a large underground cave extends beyond the opening of a lunar pit. A ca...
Chang'e-6 soil yields first natural lunar gamma iron, a possible magnetic recorder
Sep 28, 2026 (SPX)
The Moon no longer has a global magnetic field, but lunar rocks and soils still hold records of ancient magnetism. Studying the magnetic minerals in these sampl...
ETH Zurich Study Points to Strong Ancient Magnetic Field on the Moon
Sep 23, 2026 (SPX)
Unlike the Earth, the Moon no longer has a core-generated magnetic field today. On our planet, the movement of liquid iron in the outer core generates a global ...
NASA, IBM Release Open-Source AI Model For Analyzing Moon Data, With USRA Support
Sep 18, 2026 (SPX)
NASA and IBM Research have released an open-source artificial intelligence model designed to help scientists analyze the large and diverse datasets returned by ...
Ancient cold traps at lunar south pole identified as prime targets for Artemis ice sampling
May 01, 2026 (SPX)
The study, published in Nature Astronomy, was led by Prof. Oded Aharonson of Weizmann's Earth and Planetary Sciences Department, together with Prof. Paul Hayne ...
China Identifies Two New Lunar Minerals from Chang'e 5 Samples
Apr 26, 2026 (SPX)
The announcement was made on Friday at an event in Chengdu, Sichuan province, held to mark China's 11th Space Day. The China National Space Administration confi...
Chang'e 7 Preps for South Pole Mission as China Charts Expanding Lunar Program
Apr 26, 2026 (SPX)
The announcement came as China marked its 11th Space Day, with officials using the occasion to review the achievements of the Chang'e program and outline the ro...
Lunar Dust Transformed Into Structural Reinforcement for Moon Base Construction
Apr 23, 2026 (SPX)
The study was led by Denizhan Yavas, assistant teaching professor of mechanical engineering at Rice, in collaboration with Ashraf Bastawros of Iowa State Univer...
Artemis mission approaches lunar loop for first flyby since 1972
Apr 06, 2026 (AFP)
The Orion capsule will now whip around the Moon, setting the crew up to travel farther from our home planet than any human before. The astronauts entered what N...
Artemis astronauts to study the Moon's surface using mainly their eyes
Apr 05, 2026 (SPX)
Despite the technological advancements since the Apollo missions, NASA still relies on the eyesight of its astronauts to learn more about the Moon. "The human e...
Artemis astronauts more than halfway to Moon, putting Earth in rearview
Apr 04, 2026 (AFP)
Astronaut Christina Koch said the crew had a collective "expression of joy" upon being told of the milestone, which was hit around two days, five hours and 24 m...
'Breathtaking': Artemis astronauts blast towards Moon
Apr 03, 2026 (AFP)
With enough thrust to accelerate a stationary car to highway driving speed in less than three seconds, the Orion capsule engine blasted the astronauts on their ...
Astronauts begin NASA lunar mission after climactic blast-off
Apr 02, 2026 (AFP)
With a thunderous roar that reverberated far beyond the launchpad, the enormous orange-and-white rocket carried three Americans and one Canadian away from Flori...
Recycled sewage turns lunar regolith into crop soil
Mar 30, 2026 (SPX)
"In lunar and Martian outposts, organic wastes will be key to generating healthy, productive soils," explains Harrison Coker, the first author on the study. "By...
Moon race: how China is challenging the US
Mar 30, 2026 (AFP)
As US space agency NASA prepares for its crewed lunar flyby mission, Artemis II, we take a look at China's ambitions in space: - What is China's crewed programm...
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