Using new techniques, scientists have discovered for the first time that tiny beads of volcanic glasses collected from two Apollo missions to the Moon contain water.

Design and engineering firm BonNova has developed a lightweight, long-duration rocket engine, which will compete for the 2008 Lunar Lander X Prize.

The University of Glasgow is offering its expertise in a major competition to land a robot on the moon.

China's first lunar probe is operating normally and is on its planned trajectory more than one week after blasting off, a government agency said Thursday.

A bold new mission to the Moon was launched today by the Chinese National Space Administration (CNSA). Chang’e-1 blasted off from the Xichang Satellite Launch Centre, Sichuan, atop a Long March 3A rocket.

The People's Republic of China today launched its first moon orbiter as part of the country's lunar exploration program.

China successfully launched its Chang'e 1 orbiter, the country's first lunar probe, on Wednesday. The Chang'e 1 satellite was launched on schedule at 6:05 p.m. local time (10:05 a.m. GMT) from the Xichang Launch Center in the country's southwest.

China is to launch its first lunar probe on Wednesday, just weeks after its rival, Japan , sent satellite into moon orbit. The wider window has been set for between Oct. 24 and Oct. 26, but the best time is about 6 p.m. on Wednesday, Li Guoping, a spokesman for the China National Space Administration, said Monday.

NASA announced its intent to restart a small scientific satellite mission it had canceled in 2006 because of funding pressures created in part by the shift in the agency's focus to manned missions to the moon and Mars.

A year ago, as Europe reached the Moon for the first time, scientists on Earth eagerly watched SMART-1’s spectacular impact. New results from the impact analysis and from the instruments still keep coming.

Owing to SMART-1’s high resolution and favourable illumination conditions during the satellite’s scientific operations, data from Europe’s lunar orbiter is helping put together a story linking geological and volcanic activity on the Moon.

Columbia University Astronomer Offers New Theory Into 400-year-old Lunar Mystery.