`Lunar explorer on perfect trajectory`

Last Updated: Sunday, September 8, 2013, 12:44

The Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer (LADEE) was "on a perfect trajectory" to reach the Moon in 30 days, US space agency NASA has said.

NASA’s LADEE spacecraft lifts off to probe lunar dust

Last Updated: Saturday, September 7, 2013, 11:01

An unmanned Minotaur 5 rocket blasted off from the Virginia coast on Friday to send a small NASA science satellite on its way to the moon, officials said.

NASA`s LADEE spacecraft lifts off to probe lunar dust

Last Updated: Saturday, September 7, 2013, 10:49

An unmanned Minotaur 5 rocket blasted off from the Virginia coast on Friday to send a small NASA science satellite on its way to the moon, officials said.

Moon landing mission to use `secret weapons`

Last Updated: Thursday, September 5, 2013, 21:27

Multiple "secret weapons" will be used on China`s Chang`e-3 lunar probe, scheduled for launch at the end of this year for a moon landing mission, a key scientist has said.

NASA to launch LADEE mission on Friday

Last Updated: Wednesday, September 4, 2013, 19:23

The US space agency, NASA, will launch its next mission to the moon on Friday in order to study the satellite’s super thin exosphere and dust.

Space laser set to prove increased broadband possible beyond Earth

Last Updated: Thursday, August 29, 2013, 13:28

NASA`s new mission is going to attempt to show that two-way laser communication beyond Earth is possible, which expands the possibility of transmitting huge amounts of data.

NASA to launch Moon mission next month

Last Updated: Sunday, August 25, 2013, 13:28

NASA is making final preparations to launch a small car-sized robotic Moon probe next month in an attempt to answer prevailing questions about the lunar atmosphere.

NASA`s latest probe to sniff out lunar atmosphere

Last Updated: Friday, August 23, 2013, 14:08

NASA is making final preparations to launch a probe at 11:27 pm EDT Friday from it`s Wallops Flight Facility on Wallops Island, Virginia.

Realities behind Blue Moon revealed

Last Updated: Wednesday, August 21, 2013, 18:20

This Tuesday will be a `Blue Moon` in August even though it`s the only full moon this month.

World’s first-ever Moon’s South Pole mission in 2016?

Last Updated: Friday, July 19, 2013, 19:10

Two private companies plan to put a telescope called International Lunar Observatory (ILO) atop a lunar mountain as early as 2016, with an aim to help the humankind understand the astrophysics better.