Elphic, a Los Alamos scientist. The Los Alamos studies include data on Moonquake activity, further confirmation of the presence of water-ice on the moon, and mapping of iron and titanium using ...

Water ice on the moon is no longer a subject of speculation, but a reality that scientists are keen to explore. However, the ...

The Lunar Prospector spacecraft, seen here in an artist's rendering released by NASA, ploughed into a crater in the south pole of the moon in an attempt to stir up lunar soil in search of water. File ...

“Lunar Prospector: Against All Odds,” by Alan Binder, Ph.D. (Ken Press, see ken@kenpress.com or call 520-743-3200), is the highly personal and engaging story of how the Lunar Prospector orbital ...

On July 31, 1999, NASA crashed the Lunar Prospector spacecraft into the Moon to ends its successful mission to detect frozen water on the lunar surface. The Lunar Prospector was launched in January ...

Using data collected over two decades ago, scientists from the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, Maryland, have compiled the first complete map of hydrogen abundances on the ...

Preface -- Prolog: Lunar Prospector's prehistory : 1865 through late November 1988 -- 1. The early years : late November 1988 through February 23, 1995 -- 2. Success at last : February 24, 1995 ...

Using data collected over two decades ago, scientists have compiled the first complete map of hydrogen abundances on the Moon's surface. The map identifies two types of lunar materials containing ...

A new venture is preparing to test the limits of lunar exploration with an ambitious plan to mine the Moon for helium-3, a ...

July 31 (UPI) --On this date in history: In 1498, on his third voyage to the New World, Christopher Columbus discovered the island of Trinidad. In 1556 Ignatius of Loyola, founder of the Jesuit order ...