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The presence of carbon dioxide cold traps on the moon have been confirmed
For decades scientists have speculated that the moon potentially had solid carbon dioxide hidden in something researchers called lunar carbon dioxide cold traps. Finally, after…
NASA Delays Moon Landing to 2025, Blames Jeff Bezos and Congress
In what is a surprise to absolutely no one, NASA won’t be sending astronauts to the lunar surface in 2024. Blaming everyone but the kitchen…
Nasa announces uncrewed flights around the Moon to begin in February 2022
The Orion capsule will be launched on the Space Launch System, paving the way for the resumption of people to walk on Earth’s satellite again…
NASA Captures Spooky Photo of the Moon’s Shadow on Earth During an Eclipse
Earthlings were privy to an exciting astronomical event last month: an annular solar eclipse, which cast a lunar shadow across the Arctic Circle. Today NASA…
How to best watch the lunar eclipse in the US and Canada
On May 26, a total lunar eclipse will be visible in the pre-dawn sky over much of North America. Skygazers will see the Moon pass completely…
Congress fires warning shot at NASA after SpaceX Moon lander award
Enlarge / Committee Chair Sen. Maria Cantwell, D-Wash., listens to former US Sen. Bill Nelson, President Biden’s nominee to be the next administrator of NASA,…
SpaceX will launch a Dogecoin-funded Moon satellite
SpaceX has agreed to launch a Moon satellite funded entirely by Dogecoin in early 2022. Source: https://www.engadget.com/spacex-dogecoin-moon-satellite-mission-200850331.html Proactive Computing found this story and shared it…
SpaceX reportedly wins NASA’s Artemis lunar lander contract
Elon Musk’s company will take astronauts to the Moon for the first time since 1972, according to the ‘Washington Post’ Source: https://www.engadget.com/spacex-nasa-artemis-lunar-lander-contract-report-184448656.html Droolin’ Dog sniffed…
Russia turns away from NASA, says it will work with China on a Moon base
Enlarge (credit: Simon Stacpoole | Offside | Getty Images) The heads of the Chinese and Russian space agencies signed an agreement on Tuesday to work…
China collects Moon samples, may not share with NASA due to Wolf Amendment
Enlarge / Workers at the landing site of the return capsule of China’s Chang’e 5 probe in Siziwang Banner, north China’s Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region,…
Jeff Bezos: Blue Origin space company will take first woman to the moon
Amazon owner seeks Nasa lunar lander contract Elon Musk’s SpaceX and Dynetics also in competition Jeff Bezos’ space company Blue Origin will take the first…
NASA selects four companies for Moon material collection as it seeks to set precedent on private sector outer space mining
NASA has selected the winning candidates that they’ve decided to tap to collect lunar resources for eventual Earth return, from a number of commercial companies…
China’s Chang’e-5 mission leaves Moon’s surface
The robotic probe lifts off the lunar surface carrying samples of rock and dust to send to Earth. Source: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-55179983 Droolin’ Dog sniffed out this…
China’s lunar sampling robot beams back its first full-color moon shots
Yesterday, China’s Chang’e-5 robotic lunar lander successfully set down on the lunar surface marking, for the first time in four decades, that humans have travelled…
China’s Chang’e-5 Moon mission returns colour pictures
The robotic Chang’e-5 probe starts work to gather lunar samples it can send to Earth for study. Source: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-55160768 Droolin’ Dog sniffed out this story…
China’s Chang’e-5 lunar lander successfully lands on the Moon
Chinese state news agencies are reporting a successful landing of the Chang’e-5 lunar robotic lander, which will seek to return lunar rock samples back to…
Fight for Moon’s limited resources could lead to ‘conflict’ between governments and private companies, scientists fear
‘We don’t have a second moon to move on to. This is all we have to work with’ Source: https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/moon-government-companies-resources-conflicts-b1761170.html Droolin’ Dog sniffed out this…
China in final preparations for latest lunar mission
Chinese technicians are making final preparations for a mission to bring back material from the lunar surface in what would be a major advance for…
One giant leap for China: Beijing gets ready to go to the Moon and bring back rocks
If successful, the mission will be the first to bring back rocks from the Moon’s surface since the 1960s and 70s. Source: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/china-moon-mission-us-materials-b1724244.html Droolin’ Dog…
Astronomers outline revival plan for a massive telescope on the moon
A group of astronomers from the University of Texas at Austin believe that reviving an old NASA plan from a decade ago could solve a…
The moon’s ‘long-lost twin’ may have been found
The asteroid could have been dislodged from the Moon before being trapped in Mars gravitational field Source: https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/moon-long-lost-twin-mars-armagh-observatory-planetarium-b1592081.html Droolin’ Dog sniffed out this story and…
A rare blue moon will fall on Halloween this year — here’s how to see it
The moon won’t actually appear to be the color blue — the moon gets its name from a 16th century folklore writer and back then,…
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