July 2020
Investigations into plant growth on the Moon
... and their results. Why grow anything on the Moon? Because the Moon is important in the ‘stepping-stone approach’ to...to carry a self-sustaining ecosystem to the surface of Moon. Its science payloads included a unique biosphere experiment which ...
01 November 2016
New twist on Moon formation helps explain its weird orbit
... University of California, Davis and senior author on a paper recently submitted to Nature on this new research. However, if the Moon condensed from a disk of material rotating around Earth's equator, then it should be in orbit over the equator but...
21 September 2020
Jupiter could have 600 moons, a new study says
... team of scientists, this time led by graduate student Edward Ashton at the University of British Columbia, identified 45 candidate moons after trawling through 60 archival images taken in 2010 by the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope located near the...
September 2016
Moon or Mars - how logical is NASA’s next step?
... which was set up by some of the most eminent names in the commercial space industry (ie, SpaceX, Blue Origin, Moon Express and Virgin Galactic), steers and is a growing and powerful lobby in Washington. The question must be asked...
November 2016
Moon or Mars - NASA’s next logical step?
...the next logical step for NASA? Is it to return to the Moon, or press forward to Mars? With shrinking space budgets, a lack ...great interest if NASA were to invite partners to join a Moon exploration programme. “I even think China would be open to this...
13 September 2016
Scientists prove the Moon was created by a vaporised Earth
...expands to form an enormous superfluid disk from which the Moon eventually crystallises. This theory is more favoured as the... found in lunar samples. The duo’s findings show that Moon rocks are enriched in the isotope compared with Earth rocks ...
