Lunar News

Posted September 8, 2004:

• NASA A 'Go' For Midair Capture Of Samples From The Sun

Posted August 17, 2004:

• Scientists Discover Ganymede Has A Lumpy Interior

Posted May 26, 2004:

• Full Moon Exerts No Pull On Frequency Of Epileptic Seizures

Posted May 6, 2004:

• NASA Genesis Spacecraft On Final Lap Toward Home

Posted January 15, 2004:

• Human Missions To The Moon And Mars: President Bush Offers New Vision For NASA

Posted December 22, 2003:

• Spinning Spokes: Cornell Scientists Develop Method For Using Rover Wheels To Study Martian Soil By Digging Holes

Posted November 19, 2003:

• Arecibo Radar Shows No Evidence Of Thick Ice At Lunar Poles, Despite Data From Previous Spacecraft Probes

Posted October 23, 2003:

• Let Gravity Assist You...

Posted October 10, 2003:

• First Extrasolar Planets, Now Extrasolar Moons

Posted October 2, 2003:

• SMART-1 Ion Engine Fired Successfully

Posted September 17, 2003:

• Lunar Prospecting With Chandra X-Ray Observatory Is Productive

Posted August 19, 2003:

• Smart-1 – All Set To Fly To The Moon; Europe Embarks Upon Its First Lunar Mission

Posted August 11, 2003:

• Europe's First Moon Probe Prepares For Launch

Posted April 28, 2003:

• Saturn's Titan Reveals A Surface Dominated By Icy Bedrock

Posted February 25, 2003:

• NASA Solves Half-Century Old Moon Mystery

Posted January 9, 2003:

• Moon's Early History May Have Been Interrupted By Big Burp, Geophysicists Claim

Posted October 15, 2002:

• Titan's Bizarre Landscape Shaped More By Internal Heat Than Erosion, Scientist Predicts

Posted September 27, 2002:

• First Confirmed Capture Into Earth Orbit Is Likely Apollo Rocket

Posted July 23, 2002:

• Dust In "Earth's Attic" Could Hold Evidence Of Planet's Earliest Life

Posted April 16, 2002:

• Getting Power From The Moon

Posted February 14, 2002:

• Moon's Heart Melted, Say Lunar Love Numbers

Posted January 16, 2002:

• University Of Washington Researcher Plans Project To Pin Down Moon's Distance From Earth

Posted October 12, 2001:

• Lunar Soil Yields Evidence About Sun's Dynamic Workings

Posted March 29, 2000:

• Meteoroid Bombardment Of Moon Has Intensified In Past 500 Million Years, Coinciding With Blossoming Of Life On Earth

Posted February 28, 2000:

• NASA's 7th Annual "Great Moonbuggy Race" On Track For April 7-8

Posted October 14, 1999:

• No Water Ice Detected From Lunar Prospector Impact

Posted September 2, 1999:

• New Cassini Moon Images Show Spacecraft Camera Is In Top Form

Posted August 9, 1999:

• Rutgers Researchers Recreate The Moon's Atmosphere In The Lab

Posted August 2, 1999:

• Lunar Prospector Crashes On The Moon -- No Sign Of Water Yet

Posted July 28, 1999:

• Astronomers Will Watch Lunar Prospector Plume Saturday -- And Wish Colleague A Final Happy Landing

Posted July 27, 1999:

• Two Scientists Make Case Against Ice On The Moon

Posted July 20, 1999:

• Apollo 11 Experiment Continues To Return Valuable Data

Posted June 15, 1999:

• UT Austin Researchers And NASA To Crash Spacecraft To Find Lunar Ice

Posted June 7, 1999:

• Radar Provides First 3-D Views Of Moon's Frigid Poles, Indicating Sites For Ice Deposits, Say Cornell Astronomers

Posted March 17, 1999:

• Lunar Data Support Idea That Collision Split Earth, Moon

Posted December 2, 1998:

• Prospecting For Helium-3 On The Moon

Posted November 5, 1998:

• Radar-Processing Algorithm Produces High-Resolution Lunar Images

Posted September 4, 1998:

• Latest Lunar Prospector Findings Indicate Larger Amounts Of Water Ice

Posted September 2, 1998:

• Earth Microbes On The Moon

Posted August 20, 1998:

• Investigating The Moon's Atmosphere

Posted March 6, 1998:

• Lunar Prospector Finds Evidence Of Ice At Moon's Poles

Posted January 5, 1998:

• Lunar Prospector Set To Launch Today -- Will Answer Long-Standing Questions About Our Closest Neighbor

Posted December 31, 1997:

• Los Alamos Instruments To Prospect For Water On The Moon

Posted July 22, 1997:

• NASA Statement On The Passing Of Gene Shoemaker

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