Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Oct 31, 2025 China is integrating commercial competition into its manned lunar exploration program to hasten development. The agency has adopted competitive models for the crewed lunar rover, lunar surface remote-sensing satellites, and low-cost cargo transport systems for the space station. Contracts have been awarded through competitive selection, and development is in progress. The scale and share of comm| Space News From SpaceDaily.Com
Washington (AFP) Oct 31, 2025 - NASA hit back on Thursday at reality TV star Kim Kardashian's claim that the 1969 Moon landing didn't happen, a theory consistently debunked over decades.| Moon Daily
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Oct 30, 2025 - Astrobotic is preparing for the Griffin-1 lunar landing by applying a rigorous test like you fly methodology designed to validate every aspect of its Guidance, Navigation, and Control system. Each| Moon Daily
Sydney, Australia (SPX) Oct 25, 2025 - NASA's Exploration Ground Systems team has completed the stacking and integration of the Lockheed Martin-developed Orion spacecraft, named Integrity, with the Space Launch System (SLS) rocket in Hig| Moon Daily
Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Oct 24, 2025 - Researchers have examined over 400 glass particles collected from the far side of the Moon during the Change-6 mission, identifying 178 impact glass beads to analyze their microstructures and compos| Moon Daily
Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Oct 23, 2025 - Meteorites are vital tools for investigating planetary formation and evolution, yet most are lost to atmospheric and geological processes on Earth. Carbonaceous Ivuna-type (CI) chondrites are partic| Moon Daily
Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Oct 17, 2025 - Space Quarters Inc., a deep-tech startup spun out from Tohoku University, has raised $5.0 million in seed funding to accelerate the development of robotic and electron beam welding systems for const| Moon Daily
Sydney, Australia (SPX) Sep 30, 2025 - Crest Robotics and Earthbuilt Technology will present Charlotte, the first robot capable of constructing buildings on both Earth and the Moon, at the 76th International Astronautical Congress in Syd| Moon Daily
Greenbelt MD (SPX) Aug 22, 2025 - NASA's Artemis II mission, set to send four astronauts on a nearly 10-day mission around the Moon and back, will advance the agency's goal to land astronauts at the Moon's south polar region and w| Moon Daily
Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Jul 30, 2025 - A Chinese research team has created a prototype machine that transforms moon soil into durable construction bricks using solar energy, marking a critical step toward building lunar structures from l| Moon Daily
Tokyo Japan (SPX) Aug 05, 2025 - ispace, inc. has signed an agreement with Bridgestone Corporation to jointly develop and evaluate tires for future small and medium-sized lunar rovers. The initiative aims to accelerate practical de| Moon Daily
Washington (AFP) Aug 8, 2025 - US astronaut Jim Lovell, the commander of the Apollo 13 Moon mission which nearly ended in disaster in 1970 after a mid-flight explosion, has died at the age of 97, NASA announced Friday.| Moon Daily
Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Aug 05, 2025 - China has approved the ninth round of lunar sample lending applications, distributing over 30 grams of moon material to 32 research teams across 25 institutions. These samples, retrieved by the Chan| Moon Daily
Washington DC (UPI) Jul 30, 2025 - NASA is preparing for its April 2026 Artemis II 10-day mission that will send a crew of four around the moon to prepare for future crewed moon landings.| Moon Daily
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Jul 30, 2025 - NASA has awarded Firefly Aerospace a $176.7 million contract under its Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) initiative to deliver two rovers and three instruments to the Moon's South Pole region| Moon Daily
Sydney, Australia (SPX) Apr 23, 2025 - Spectral imagers have become vital tools in the quest to unravel the Moon's mineralogical makeup, playing a central role in today's lunar science missions. As interest grows in acquiring higher-qual| Moon Daily
Berlin, Germany (SPX) Jan 17, 2025 - A collaborative study by researchers from the University of Gottingen and the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research (MPS) has offered new insights into the formation of the Moon and the ori| Moon Daily