20 September 2019
Russia and China to cooperate on future Moon missions
...Russia and China have agreed on a joint exploration of the Moon, which could see each country contributing a payload to the others ... detailed surveys of the south polar region of the Moon, covering the terrain, geological composition, locations of water...
06 November 2020
The Moon could have a long-lost "twin" in orbit around Mars
... sizeable space rock has the same chemical signature as the Moon, suggesting that this relic fragment could be a long-lost...collected and coalesced in an orbit around our planet to form the Moon. This is known as the giant-impact hypothesis and a shard...
15 January 2021
Orion now ready for its Moon mission later this year
... be seen. Before then, Artemis II, will head to the Moon with a crew onboard, but will not descend to the lunar ...surface. Instead Orion’s inhabitants will orbit the Moon and return. “I am proud of the extraordinary dedication and efforts...
01 March 2021
Turkey to build a rocket launch site in Somalia to support Moon 2023 landing
...of the program is to make the first contact with the Moon in our republic's centennial year [2023]," Erdogan said at ...engines that will make our own firing in space on our Moon mission,” said Turkey’s Industry and Technology minister Mustafa Varank ...
31 May 2021
JAXA to send a transforming robot to the Moon in 2022
... developed by JAXA, TOMY Company, Sony Group Corporation and Doshisha University, the robot will be delivered to the Moon in 2022 by ispace, inc, a private Japanese lunar robotic exploration company that is developing micro-robotic technology. Packed...
23 July 2021
Astronomers detect a disk where exoplanet moons could be forming
...potentially interesting system when in 2019, astronomers found compelling evidence that a dusty disk capable of forming multiple moons was surrounding the outermost known planet, PDS 70c, which is located approximately 5.3 billion kilometres from its...
