News

  • China's Chang’e-4 lander and its small rover, Yutu 2
    From Wired: China made history earlier this year when its Chang'e-4 lander became the first spacecraft to land on the far side of the moon. During the two-week lunar days, the lander and its small rover, Yutu 2, beam images and other data to an
  • NASA’s Volatiles Investigating Polar Exploration Rover, or VIPER, is a mobile robot that will roam around the Moon’s south pole looking for water ice.
    From NASA.gov: NASA is sending a mobile robot to the South Pole of the Moon to get a close-up view of the location and concentration of water ice in the region and for the first time ever, actually sample the water ice at the same pole where the
  • Hundreds of inexpensively made antennae tuned into the cosmos look for radio waves from potentially habitable planets at Caltech’s Owens Valley Radio Observatory near Big Pine, California.
    From Alta: Sometime in the next decade, NASA hopes to deploy a rover to the dark side of the moon, where it will roll out 128 small, lightweight radio antennae in a flower configuration over 100 square kilometers of the lunar dirt. The FARSIDE
  • The moon rises near the town of Kalavrita, Greece, August 14, 2019  REUTERS Alkis Konstantinidis
    From Reuters: WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A decade after NASA sent a rocket crashing into the moon’s south pole, spewing a plume of debris that revealed vast reserves of ice beneath the barren lunar surface, the space agency is racing to pick up where
  • An artist's impression of Capstone. Tyvak Nano-satellite Systems
    From Sky & Telescope: A future CubeSat pathfinder is set to explore a unique orbital path that will be used later by humans exploring the Moon. Last week, NASA awarded a $13.7 million contract to Advanced Space, based in Boulder, Colorado, to
  • A night view of part of the Murchison Widefield Array in Western Australia. Credit Dr John Goldsmith/Celestial Visions
    From Nature: The quest to unlock the secrets of the baby Universe To get an idea of what the Universe looks like from Earth’s perspective, picture a big watermelon. Our Galaxy, the Milky Way, is one of the seeds, at the centre of the fruit. The
  • NASA remembers Apollo 11 mission and moon landing still from video
    From CGTN America: It was exactly 50 years ago (Saturday 7/20) that two U.S. astronauts first walked on the moon. This "giant leap for mankind" remains one of humanity's greatest achievements. There are many celebrations taking place to mark
  • Fiske Planetarium with Apollo 11 poster in foreground
    From 9News: At the Fiske Planetarium in Boulder, there are more than 75 shows this month to celebrate 50 years since the first manned lunar mission. Watch the video.
  • Apollo Lunar Module
    From CBC Radio: When humans return to the moon as soon as 2024, their missions will be vastly different from those of the Apollo pioneers. The Apollo program changed the world without significantly changing the surface of the moon, but the next
  • Photo of Gene Kranz in control room
    From Richard French Live:  Exactly 50 years ago the Apollo 11 astronauts were on their way to the moon.  RFL’s Andrew Whitman speaks with Prof. Jack Burns, director of the Network for Exploration and Space Science, about this space aged
Subscribe to News