For the first time ever, the Hubble Space Telescope has observed water plumes on the icy crust of Europa. The Jovian moon is one of the most likely worlds to contain life in the Solar System. According to Lorenz Roth—who headed the team that made the discovery—"this is tremendously exciting." No kidding.
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NASA has successfully tested its Morpheus lander prototype. It launched today over a flame trench at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center’s Shuttle Landing Facility, climbed 50 feet into the air, hovered for 15 seconds, flew 23 feet and landed on the designated pad. Once put into service, the Morpheus model will be used to deliver cargo […]
According to NASA’s Juno principal investigator Scott Bolton "if Captain Kirk of the USS Enterprise said, ‘Take us home, Scotty,’ this is what the crew would see." It’s truly an incredible sequence—the first time ever that the Moon has been captured orbiting Earth.
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Moon Express is one of the companies hoping to win the Google Lunar X Prize competition worth as much as $30 million. Not too long ago the company was celebrating a successful free flight test with the NASA Mighty Eagle lander. Moon Express has this week unveiled its own lunar lander called the MX-1. Moon […]
After the Fukushima boondoggle back in 2011, Japan has wholeheartedly embraced solar power as its alternative energy of choice. So much so, that one Japanese construction firm is campaigning to power the whole Earth with solar energy—that they will beam down from the moon.
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To many people, the Earth’s moon is something of a mystery as it only shows itself once the sun sets and is responsible for the sea’s currents. But one Japanese company is looking to the moon to point a giant laser at our planet as a way to provide us with clean, renewable energy. (more…)
Japanese Company Wants To Send Robots To The Moon For Solar Energy Farming original content from Ubergizmo. 
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The US was the first country to put humans on the surface of the moon and the lunar landing sites from those early Apollo missions are a national treasure. As more countries are working on sending missions to the moon, the US is currently grappling with how it will protect the lunar landing sites from […]
Just a decade after entering the space race, China is headed to the moon. With the successful launch of a Long March rocket carrying the Chang’e 3 lunar lander earlier this morning, China is attempting to become the third nation in history to land (rather than crash) a spacecraft on the lunar surface.
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The space race seems to be on yet again, and this time around it would be China who wants to make a statement. In fact, the country is all set to launch a probe to the moon this coming December 2nd, and the probe will be known as the Chang’e-3, as it takes off from Xichang. Xichang happens to be a Chinese launch center when it comes to satellites, and it has one hurdle to pass – to end up on the moon’s surface a dozen days after taking off, which would be December 14th.
The moment Chang’e-3 lands, the probe which will hold a rover within will start to make its way across the surface of the moon. Given the moniker “Yutu”, this rover is touted to be able to drive itself in an autonomous manner, but there is also the option to control it thanks to the space program in China. Just how long will it “stay” on the moon? Well, we are looking at approximately 3 months here. The European Space Agency (ESA) will be assisting in guiding the probe from Kourou, French Guiana, via a station there. According to a retired astronaut, Thomas Reiter, “We are proud that the expertise of our ground station and flight dynamics teams and the sophisticated technologies of our worldwide Estrack network can assist China to deliver a scientifically important lander and rover to the Moon.”
China To Send Probe To Moon On December 2 original content from Ubergizmo. 
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China has successfully launched the Chang’e-3 probe slated to put a lander and rover on the moon. The pair are equipped with seven scientific instruments for observing outer space and gathering data about the lunar surface. The launch took place today at 5:30PM UTC using a Long March 3B rocket at the LC2 Launch Complex […]
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