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NASA's Moon orbiter camera survived meteoroid hit

The camera captures moderate resolution images using filters to provide information about the properties and colour of the lunar surface.

27 May 2017 3:29 PM

The combined power of three space observatories has helped uncover the moon orbiting the dwarf planet 2007 OR10 in the Kuiper Belt, a realm of icy debris left over from our solar system's formation 4.6 billion years ago. (Photo: NASA)

Moon orbiting solar system's 3rd largest dwarf planet found

With this discovery, most of the known dwarf planets in the Kuiper Belt larger than 965 kilometres across have companions.

20 May 2017 8:24 AM

A Long March 7 rocket just before blast off at Wenchang Space Launch Centre on April 20, 2017. Groups of volunteers will live in a sealed lab simulating a lunar-like environment as Beijing prepares for its long-term goal of putting humans on the moon (Photo:AFP)

China tests 'Lunar Palace' as it eyes moon mission

The volunteers will live in the sealed lab to simulate a long-term, self-contained space mission with no input from the outside world

12 May 2017 7:51 AM

Volunteers would live in a "simulated space cabin" for between 60-200 days over the next year helping scientists understand what will be needed for humans to "remain on the moon in the medium and long terms".

China simulates extended moon stays amid space drive

China is testing the ability for future astronauts to stay on the moon for extended periods

11 May 2017 9:49 AM

The European Space Agency, or ESA, has described its "Moon Village" as a potential international launching pad for future missions to Mars.

China in talks with European Space Agency about moon outpost

China has ramped up its space program since its first manned spaceflight in 2003

26 Apr 2017 1:20 PM

Phobos, the largest and closest of two moons circling the Red Plane (Photo: AFP)

France, Japan aim for Martian Moon

Phobos, the largest and closes of the two moons circling around Mar’s moon, is 17kms in diameter

14 Apr 2017 7:51 AM

A trail of smoke can be seen from the 2013 eruption of the Pavlof volcano, which spewed an ash cloud 20,000 feet into the atmosphere that traveled southeastward over the North Pacific Ocean. The volcanos that may have contributed to snowball Earth spanned almost 2000 miles and erupted continuously for years. (Image courtesy of NASA)

What caused 'snowball Earth'?

A perfect storm of fire and ice may have led to snowball Earth.

15 Mar 2017 2:18 PM

'Lost' Chandrayaan-1 found orbiting Moon: NASA

Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) lost communication with Chandrayaan-1 on August 29, 2009, almost a year after it was launched.

10 Mar 2017 3:44 PM

He was a founder of payments company PayPal, electric carmaker Tesla Motors and SpaceX, maker and launcher of rockets and spacecraft. (Photo:AFP)

Elon Musk: Tech dreamer reaching for sun, moon and stars

In a sector where entrepreneurs often speak of 'moonshots,' Musk is one of the biggest dreamers.

06 Mar 2017 7:55 AM

NASA has designed a 11.4 centimetres carbon-composite shield, which is designed to withstand temperatures outside the spacecraft of 1,370 degrees Celsius. (Photo: Applied Physics Laboratory)

NASA may send robotic spacecraft to Sun next year

NASA plans to launch the Solar Probe Plus mission to the Sun which is about 149 million kilometres from the Earth.

01 Mar 2017 12:12 PM

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket attached to the cargo-only capsule called Dragon lays on its side in 2012 in Cape Canaveral, Florida. (Photo: AFP)

SpaceX says it will fly 2 people to moon next year

Two people who know one another approached the company about sending them on a weeklong flight just beyond the moon.

28 Feb 2017 8:03 AM

Nasa plans to launch the Solar Probe Plus mission to the Sun which is about 149 million km from the Earth.

Nasa may send robotic spacecraft to Sun in 2018

The scientists also want to know how solar wind gets its speed, ‘Live Science’ reported.

28 Feb 2017 1:11 AM

The zinc that was present was enriched in the heavier and less-reactive isotopes, which are forms of these elements with different atomic mass but the same chemical properties.

First nuclear explosion helps test Moon's formation theory

The test samples analysed were collected between 10 meters and 250 meters from ground zero at the Trinity test site in New Mexico.

09 Feb 2017 7:58 PM

Team Indus and Hakuto will share a ride on an Indian PSLV launcher.

Five teams vying for Google prize to land spacecraft on the moon

Google’s parent company, Alphabet has produced a documentary series about Lunar XPrize competition.

25 Jan 2017 7:39 AM

Daphnis, measuring just eight kilometres across, orbits within the 42-kilometre wide area known as the Keeler Gap. (Photo: NASA)

NASA's Saturn probe beams back image of wavemaker moon Daphnis

The little moon's gravity raises waves in the edges of the gap in both the horizontal and vertical directions.

23 Jan 2017 7:57 AM

This January 1, 1971 image courtesy of NASA shows Apollo astronaut Eugene A. Cernan

Eugene Cernan, last man to walk on moon, dead at 82

Cernan was the spacecraft commander of Apollo 17.

17 Jan 2017 7:29 AM

The moon was created from debris knocked off from Earth, which itself is thought to be roughly 4.54 billion years old.

Scientists: Moon over the hill at 4.51 billion years old

The moon formed within 60 million years of the birth of the solar system.

12 Jan 2017 8:03 AM

This is a map showing the permanently shadowed regions (blue) that cover about three percent of the moon's south pole. (Photo: NASA)

Solar storms trigger sparks, melt soil on Moon: NASA

The Moon has almost no atmosphere, so its surface is exposed to the harsh space environment.

09 Jan 2017 7:51 AM

Countries that use Coordinated Universal Time — several West African nations, Britain, Ireland and Iceland — will add the leap second during the midnight countdown to 2017, making the year's final minute 61 seconds long. (Photo: NASA)

5. 4. 3. 2. 1. 1... An extra second to see out 2016

This extra second, or leap second, makes it possible to align astronomical time, which is irregular and determined by Earth's rotation.

29 Dec 2016 7:57 AM

Rahul Narayan, CEO of Team Indus, the only Indian team to win Google Lunar X prize said his team is set to land a robot on the Moon by 2017.

India’s first private spacecraft plans ride on PSLV to the Moon

India’s first private spacecraft by TeamIndus, a Bengaluru-based startup, will ride on ISRO's PSLV to get to the Moon.

03 Dec 2016 1:28 PM

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