Moon News


Mission Press Releases

  • First steps: returning humanity to the Moon
    European Space Agency - Thursday, September 21, 2017
    Posted on: 9/21/2017 7:42:51 PM PDT

  • Google Lunar XPRIZE Offers $4.75 Million to Teams Who Complete In-space Milestones on Way to the Moon
    Google Lunar XPrize - Wednesday, August 16, 2017
    Posted on: 8/16/2017 3:07:13 PM PDT

  • Moon's magnetic field lasted far longer than once believed
    Rutgers University - Thursday, August 10, 2017
    Posted on: 8/10/2017 1:17:34 PM PDT

  • TeamIndus | Team Sparks International Will Fly Experiment to the Moon
    TeamIndus - Wednesday, March 15, 2017
    Posted on: 3/15/2017 6:03:59 PM PDT

  • Mission Control: The Unsung Heroes of Apollo
    Gravitas Ventures - Friday, February 24, 2017
    Posted on: 2/25/2017 3:36:36 AM PDT

  • Family Statement Regarding Service Arrangements for Capt. Eugene A. Cernan
    NASA HQ - Tuesday, January 17, 2017
    Posted on: 1/18/2017 12:49:57 AM PDT

  • Ranking Member Johnson’s Statement on the Passing of Eugene Cernan
    House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology Democrats - Tuesday, January 17, 2017
    Posted on: 1/17/2017 3:59:23 PM PDT

  • NASA Administrator Reflects on Legacy of Last Man to Walk on Moon
    NASA HQ - Monday, January 16, 2017
    Posted on: 1/16/2017 9:25:14 PM PDT

  • Lunar sonic booms
    University of Iowa - Tuesday, December 13, 2016
    Posted on: 12/13/2016 7:34:59 PM PDT

  • SwRI Flips Switch on LAMP in Lunar Orbit
    Southwest Research Institute - Tuesday, November 1, 2016
    Posted on: 11/3/2016 1:12:28 PM PDT

  • Public Invited to Goddard to Celebrate Annual International Moon Event
    Goddard Space Flight Center - Wednesday, October 5, 2016
    Posted on: 10/5/2016 8:08:44 PM PDT

  • NASA’s Marshall Center Celebrates International Observe the Moon Night
    Marshall Space Flight Center - Wednesday, October 5, 2016
    Posted on: 10/5/2016 8:06:26 PM PDT

  • Chemistry Says Moon is Proto-Earth's Mantle, Relocated
    Washington University in St. Louis - Monday, September 12, 2016
    Posted on: 9/13/2016 12:28:14 AM PDT

  • Google Lunar XPRIZE Team HAKUTO Signs Joint Research Agreement with Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency
    Team HAKUTO - Friday, September 9, 2016
    Posted on: 9/9/2016 6:30:20 PM PDT

  • NASA Invites Media To Annual Exploration Science Forum, July 20-22
    Solar System Exploration Research Virtual Institute (SSERVI) - Tuesday, July 12, 2016
    Posted on: 7/12/2016 10:23:34 PM PDT

  • NASA Looks Back on Early Space Missions with 'A Bunch of Plumbers' Talk
    Langley Research Center - Friday, June 3, 2016
    Posted on: 6/3/2016 3:07:02 PM PDT

  • Moon Thought to Play Major Role in Maintaining Earth's Magnetic Field
    Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) - Thursday, March 31, 2016
    Posted on: 3/31/2016 2:26:15 PM PDT

  • NASA Langley Engineer and Author John Newcomb Dies
    NASA HQ - Tuesday, March 15, 2016
    Posted on: 3/16/2016 4:26:43 AM PDT

  • Testimony submitted by Paul Spudis: Charting a Course: Expert Perspectives on NASA's Human Exploration Proposals
    House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology - Wednesday, February 3, 2016
    Posted on: 2/3/2016 6:08:18 PM PDT

  • Ribbon Cutting for 50 Year-Old Newly Restored Ranger Spacecraft
    California Science Center - Thursday, October 29, 2015
    Posted on: 10/29/2015 10:29:30 PM PDT

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  • NASA ROSES-17 Amendment 23: C.8 Lunar Data Analysis Program delayed
    NASA HQ - August 17, 2017
    Posted on: 8/17/2017 3:07:07 PM PDT

  • Gallium isotopic evidence for extensive volatile loss from the Moon during its formation
    arXiv.org e-Print archive - August 10, 2017
    Posted on: 8/11/2017 1:33:08 AM PDT

  • Dust levitation above the lunar surface: role of charge fluctuations
    arXiv.org e-Print archive - July 3, 2017
    Posted on: 7/3/2017 4:26:08 PM PDT

  • A Model of the Primordial Lunar Atmosphere
    arXiv.org e-Print archive - July 3, 2017
    Posted on: 7/3/2017 4:24:08 PM PDT

  • Empirical Recurrence Rates for Seismic Signals on Planetary Surfaces
    arXiv.org e-Print archive - April 21, 2017
    Posted on: 4/21/2017 10:12:28 PM PDT

  • The composition of Solar system asteroids and Earth/Mars moons, and the Earth-Moon composition similarity
    arXiv.org e-Print archive - April 20, 2017
    Posted on: 4/20/2017 5:57:36 PM PDT

  • Effect of impact velocity and acoustic fluidization on the simple-to-complex transition of lunar craters
    arXiv.org e-Print archive - April 17, 2017
    Posted on: 4/17/2017 2:42:00 PM PDT

  • DARE Mission Design: Low RFI Observations from a Low-Altitude Frozen Lunar Orbit
    arXiv.org e-Print archive - February 2, 2017
    Posted on: 2/2/2017 3:02:59 PM PDT

  • Evidence for a Rapid Turnover of Argon in the Lunar Exosphere
    arXiv.org e-Print archive - December 8, 2016
    Posted on: 12/8/2016 6:06:45 PM PDT

  • Dear Colleague Letter: Cosponsor the Bipartisan Apollo 1 Memorial Act
    U.S. House of Representatives - December 1, 2016
    Posted on: 12/1/2016 9:47:07 PM PDT

  • On the Origin of Earth's Moon
    arXiv.org e-Print archive - September 13, 2016
    Posted on: 9/13/2016 9:50:21 PM PDT

  • NASA Seeks Science Instruments to Sponsor on Korean Space Agency Lunar Orbiter
    NASA Science Mission Directorate - September 13, 2016
    Posted on: 9/13/2016 8:54:43 PM PDT

  • The Photometric Investigation of V921 Her using the Lunar-based Ultraviolet Telescope of Chang'e-3 mission
    arXiv.org e-Print archive - August 4, 2016
    Posted on: 8/4/2016 4:44:04 PM PDT

  • A hot big bang theory: magnetic fields and the early evolution of the protolunar disk
    arXiv.org e-Print archive - July 8, 2016
    Posted on: 7/8/2016 5:23:27 PM PDT

  • Measurement of the high-energy gamma-ray emission from the Moon with the Fermi Large Area Telescope
    arXiv.org e-Print archive - April 14, 2016
    Posted on: 4/14/2016 4:37:03 PM PDT

  • Escape dynamics and fractal basins boundaries in the three-dimensional Earth-Moon system
    arXiv.org e-Print archive - April 14, 2016
    Posted on: 4/14/2016 4:34:56 PM PDT

  • 2016 Lunar Workshop for Educators
    NASA Education Office - April 10, 2016
    Posted on: 4/10/2016 4:15:04 PM PDT

  • Collisionless encounters and the origin of the lunar inclination
    arXiv.org e-Print archive - March 22, 2016
    Posted on: 3/22/2016 2:58:12 PM PDT

  • Speciation and dissolution of hydrogen in the proto-lunar disk
    arXiv.org e-Print archive - March 22, 2016
    Posted on: 3/22/2016 2:56:53 PM PDT

  • Oxygen isotopic evidence for vigorous mixing during the Moon-forming Giant Impact
    arXiv.org e-Print archive - March 18, 2016
    Posted on: 3/18/2016 3:47:58 PM PDT

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