NASA is planning to return to the moon by 2024 and wants someone to design a new toilet that works in lunar gravity. WION's Palki Sharma gets you a report.

Gravitas: NASA will pay you to design a toilet for Moon

NASA has launched a Lunar loo challenge, asking the public to send across designs for compact toilets that can function in microgravity and lunar gravity. NASA is offering $35,000 as a cash reward to people for engineering the best' lunar loo' design - the winning design in the technical category will receive $20,000, $10,000 for second place and $5,000 for third.

NASA wants inventors to design a loo for the moon

Scientists have figured out how the subsurface ocean on Jupiter’s moon Europa may have formed and determined that this vast expanse of water may have been able to support microbial life in the past.

Subsurface ocean on Jupiter's moon Europa deemed potentially 'habitable'

As the world fights the Coronavirus pandemic, the Trump administration is busy drafting a pact to 'mine the moon'. The White House is working on a legal blueprint to dig on the moon. WION's Palki Sharma gets you a report.

Gravitas: Is the US trying to colonize the moon?

The world is fighting the coronavirus, scrambling to save lives. But the US is thinking out of the box. Also read: Amid coronavirus pandemic, China eyes moon trip with successful rocket launch It is busy trying to mine the moon.

Trump led United States to secretly draft 'Artemis Accords' pact for moon mining

The White House is preparing the Artemis accords. In other words, a blueprint for mining the moon. Trump wants to divide the moon among countries and firms and allow them to mine the moon and use whatever resources they find.

United States drafts 'Artemis Accords' pact for moon mining

One of the world's largest Moon rock will go on sale in London on Friday. Valued at $2.49 million, the piece of the meteorite was knocked off the moon and will auction at a private sale at Christie's in Britain.

Moon rock for sale!: One of the largest lunar meteorite to be auctioned for $2.5 million

NASA has released a video of the moon from the perspective of the astronauts on the aborted Apollo 13 mission. Earthset, sunrise and stunning views of the cratered surface.

Watch: Moon from point of view of Apollo 13's astronauts

Astronomers in the United States have spotted a new "mini-moon" circling the planet Earth which is about the size of a car. According to the astronomers, Kacper Wierzchos and Teddy Pruyne of NASA-funded Catalina Sky Survey in Arizona, the mini-moon is between 2 to 3 meters wide.

Earth has a new 'mini-moon' about the size of a car

This year's first 'supermoon' is going to be a 'Snow Moon' and will be visible across the world this weekend. According to NASA, this will be a "full Moon weekend", with the Moon appearing full "for about three days centered around this time, from Friday evening to Monday morning, making this a full Moon weekend," NASA stated in its release on Tuesday.

This weekend, get ready for 'Snow Moon' - first supermoon of 2020

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Japanese fashion billionaire Yusaku Maezawa has pulled out of a documentary search for a girlfriend to take on his voyage around the moon with Elon Musk's SpaceX, citing his "mixed feelings" about participating.

Japanese billionaire Maezawa pulls out of dating show that promised the moon trip

A California-based aviation and aerospace company is in the process of creating an army of autonomous robots that could be sent to the moon and mine its surface.

Smart robots in the offing to help mine the moon

The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) on Wednesday released new three-dimensional images from the moon`s surface captured by the Chandrayaan -2. The images of a crater from the lunar surface was captured by the Terrain Mapping Camera-2 aboard Chandrayaan-2.

Chandrayaan-2 sends new pictures of moon's surface

National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) will send a golf cart-sized robot to the moon in 2022 to search for deposits of water below the surface, an effort to evaluate the vital resource ahead of a planned human return to the moon in 2024 to possibly use it for astronauts to drink and to make rocket fuel, the US space agency said on Friday.

NASA plans to send water-hunting robot to moon surface in 2022

As it looks to return to the Moon, NASA is open to the idea of international participation, which could mean a non-American setting foot on Earth's natural satellite for the first time in history, global space chiefs said Monday.

NASA wants international partners to go to Moon too

The Indian Research Space Organisation (ISRO) on Thursday released the first image of the surface of the moon captured by the Imaging Infrared Spectrometer (IIRS) payload on-board Chandrayaan 2.

ISRO releases first illuminated image of lunar surface taken by Chandrayaan 2

The Indian Space Research Organisation on Saturday released images of the moon surface clicked by Orbiter High-Resolution Camera (OHRC) onboard Chandrayaan-2. ISRO shared the pictures of the moon on the microblogging site.

ISRO releases high-resolution images of moon clicked from Chandrayaan-2

SpaceX shows off upcoming missions

NASA's images couldn't spot Lander Vikram.

NASA attempts to locate Vikram Lander

Chandrayaan-2 orbiter continues to perform the mission to complete satisfaction while experts are still analysing the communication loss with Vikram lander, informed Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) on Thursday.

Chandrayaan-2 orbiter performing mission to complete satisfaction: ISRO

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There Is A Sliver Of Hope To Establish Contact With Vikram Lander.

Gravitas: ISRO: Vikram Lander Found In A Tilted Position On The Moon

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