26 February 2018
More water on the Moon than previously thought
...it can easily accessed is paramount to the establishment of a lunar settlement. Up until the last decade or so, many scientists... both India's Chandrayaan-1 spacecraft and NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO), detected signatures interpreted as...
18 January 2019
Asteroid impacts on the increase since the age of the dinosaurs
... radiometer instrument, known as Diviner, aboard NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO). Diviner showed the team that...at the University of Toronto, to compile the ages of all lunar craters younger than about a billion years. The result was very...
31 July 2019
GLEE mission aims to send 500 LunaSats to the Moon
...help from a NASA-funded space mission known as GLEE (Great Lunar Expedition for Everyone). The project is part of an initiative financed...might one day help to pave the way for future lunar visits from human astronauts, students from CU Boulder are ...
25 June 2021
China announces plans to build a base on Mars starting in 2033
... to just four percent of the current cost claim China. With a string of recent successes including the Chang'e-5 lunar sample return mission, the deployment of Zhurong to the martian surface, and the deployment of astronauts to its new...
13 September 2016
Scientists prove the Moon was created by a vaporised Earth
...away is the amount of heavy potassium isotopes found in lunar samples. The duo’s findings show that Moon rocks are...This scenario disfavours the silicate atmosphere model, which predicts lunar rocks will contain less of the heavier isotope than ...
05 May 2017
Will CubeRover revolutionise planetary surface exploration?
... the university and NASA, Astrobotic are working on a CubeRover design capable of characterising surface mobility and evaluating lunar lander ejecta but on a petite scale. Like its satellite namesake – CubeSat – which has transformed the economics...
