Moon
Moons like Earth's could be more common than we thought
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June 05, 2011About one in 10 rocky planets around stars like our Sun may host a moon proportionally as large as Earth's, researchers say. Our Moon is disproportionately large - more than a quarter of Earth's diameter - a situation once thought to be rare. Using...
Google-backed Moon robot teams confirmed
February 21, 2011The final line-up of teams competing for the $30 million (£18.5m) robotic Moon-explorer prize has been confirmed. The prize will go to the builders of the first robot to send back video as it travels over 500 metres of the Moon's surface. Competition...
Early partial solar eclipse for 2011
January 04, 2011Tuesday witnessed the first partial solar eclipse of 2011. People standing across a great swathe of the Earth's surface saw the Moon take a big bite out of the Sun. For north Africa and much of Europe, the event began at sunrise, whereas in central...
NASA Crafts Smash into Moon in Search for Water
October 09, 2009By Brian Wagner The U.S. space agency has smashed a pair of heavy space craft into the moon's surface in the hopes of finding evidence of frozen water or other potential resources. It may take weeks of analyzing data before NASA scientists announce...
Russia to cooperate with USA in moon and Mars research
October 04, 2007Russia and U.S. signed agreements to cooperate on unmanned missions that would search for potential water deposits beneath the surface of the moon and Mars. The agreements signed by NASA Administrator Michael Griffin and Russian...
NASA aims to end its dependence on Russia to bring US astronauts back to the Moon
September 06, 2007Up to the year 2011, NASA is planning to purchase Russia’s Soyuz transports and Progress cargo freighters for crew trips and supply flights to the International Space Station (ISS). NASA will probably have to buy Russian-made spacecraft after 2...
- May 07, 2007
Mercury the planet closest to the sun could have a molten core, that told the researcher team from NASA. Scientists from all around the world are looking for additional resources and better technology to learn more about the planets in Earth's solar...
USA and Russia start Cold War over the Moon
May 02, 2007The chief of Russia's space agency said that the United States has rejected a proposal for the two countries to explore the moon together, a Russian news agency reported. A NASA spokesman in Washington said the U.S. was unaware of any Russian proposal...
- April 03, 2007
Google plans to open a technology center on the Moon, and this is not an april joke. On the Google Job page, the search giant is looking for engineers to work on a lunar hosting and research center scheduled for the spring of 2007. Google has a...
USA’s plans to send astronauts to Moon and Mars block scientific research on ISS
February 21, 2007The United States is not getting its money's worth out of the international space station, John Glenn said on the 45th anniversary of the day he became the first American to orbit the Earth. Diverting money from the orbiting research outpost...