Forty years after the Apollo 11 voyage to the moon, NASA released photographs from the new Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter spacecraft Friday showing five of the six Apollo landing sites. Shadows cast by the Apollo descent stages are clearly visible and ...Read More
There is water on the moon, scientists stated unequivocally on Friday.
"Indeed yes, we found water," Anthony Colaprete, the principal investigator for NASA's Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite, said in a news conference. "And we didn't find just a little ...Read More
It's official: There's water ice on the moon, and lots of it. When melted, the water could potentially be used to drink or to extract hydrogen for rocket fuel.
NASA's LCROSS probe discovered beds of water ice at the lunar south ...Read More
Last Updated 3:14 p.m. ET It turns out there's lots of water on the moon - at least near the lunar south pole. The discovery announced Friday comes from an analysis of data from a spacecraft NASA intentionally crashed into the moon ...Read More
Making a bigger splash than expected, the crash of an empty rocket stage in a permanently shadowed crater near the moon's south pole last month kicked up a surprising amount of water ice and vapor, confirming the presence of a ...Read More
It turns out there's lots of water on the moon _ at least near the lunar south pole. The discovery announced Friday comes from an analysis of data from a spacecraft NASA intentionally crashed into the moon last month. "Indeed, ...Read More
LOS ANGELES — It turns out there's lots of water on the moon — at least near the lunar south pole.
The discovery announced Friday comes from an analysis of data from a spacecraft NASA intentionally crashed into the moon last ...Read More
A "significant amount" of frozen water has been found on the moon, the US space agency said Friday heralding a giant leap forward in space exploration and boosting hopes of a permanent lunar base. Preliminary data from a dramatic experiment on ...Read More
It's official: There's water on the moon.
NASA's LCROSS probe discovered beds of water ice at the lunar south pole when it impacted the moon last month, mission scientists announced today.
"Indeed, yes, we found water. And we didn't find just a ...Read More
A team of California rocketeers won a $1-million prize in a simulated lunar landing contest backed by NASA, the X Prize Foundation announced Monday. The foundation said that Mojave, Calif.-based Masten Space Systems had a better landing accuracy than Armadillo Aerospace ...Read More
LOS ANGELES — A team of California rocketeers has won a $1 million prize in a simulated lunar landing contest backed by NASA. The X Prize Foundation said Monday that Mojave, Calif.-based Masten Space Systems had a better landing accuracy than ...Read More
A NASA satellite that hurtled into a Moon crater on an exploratory mission last week sent back "exciting" images from every phase of its flight and subsequent crash, the US space agency said Monday. "We are blown away by the data ...Read More
NASA scientists have finally seen in their data a debris plume created by the impact of a moon probe last week. The faint plume was seen in the data from the engineered crash one week after the impact of the LCROSS ...Read More
In the murky boundary between our solar system and the rest of the galaxy, scientists have spotted a bright band of surprising high-energy emissions.
The results come from the first all-sky map created by NASA's new Interstellar Boundary Explorer (IBEX) spacecraft, ...Read More
A NASA spacecraft is closing in on Mercury to snap pictures of uncharted territory Tuesday when it whips around the planet for the final time. The MESSENGER probe will skim just 142 miles above Mercury at its closest approach during the ...Read More
BANGALORE: Indian Space ResearchOrganisation may have stolen the thunder of discovering water on the Moon. The Moon Impact Probe on Chandrayaan-I appears to have sensed waterearlier than Nasa's Moon Minerolgy Mapper (M3) but protocol did not allow ISROto declare the discovery. ...Read More
NASA says that its Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) probe in orbit around the Moon has detected neutron signatures indicating possible frozen water deposits hidden in craters at the lunar south pole. One of the LRO's main missions is to find water ...Read More
Thermal observations from NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO), indicate that there may be water on the surface of the moon. The thermal mapping is being carried out by the Diviner Lunar Radiometer Experiment, which has a spatial resolution of just a ...Read More
(July 17) - For stubborn folks who still believe the Apollo astronauts never landed on the moon, NASA has new images — definitive proof — that clearly show the Apollo 11 lander that carried the first astronauts to the lunar ...Read More
NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) and Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite (LCROSS) were successfully projected Moonwards yesterday atop an Atlas V rocket. The launch from Cape Canaveral was at 21:32 GMT. The LRO separated from the upper stage at 22:16 ...Read More
NASA managers Sunday deferred making a formal decision on whether to reschedule the delayed shuttle Endeavour for launch Wednesday or press ahead instead with launch of the agency's $583 million Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter mission aboard an unmanned Atlas 5 rocket. But ...Read More
