... 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...
... three celestial events – a supermoon, a blue moon and a lunar eclipse – all happen at the same time. A supermoon occurs ...if the weather is favourable. If you miss the 31st January lunar eclipse, then you’ll have to wait almost another year for the...
... cannot. Similarly, members of the armed services can conduct scientific research on the Moon but cannot establish a lunar military base. The interplay between peaceful uses and the military generally has led many commentators...
..., and making the last views of Enceladus. Chang’e 5, China’s unmanned mission to the moon is expected to land on the lunar surface this year and is expected to bring back to Earth at least two kilograms of rock and soil samples...
... the highest resolution gravity field map of any celestial body. "When we combined that with lunar topography data from the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, we discovered the unexpectedly large amount of mass hundreds of miles underneath the South...
...autonomous robots to mine for rare-Earth elements and other lunar material on the moon. Led by researchers at the University... times faster than any other method. As efficient as it is, lunar mining still presents a challenge. "Here on Earth, we have...