2 probes, repositioned from THEMIS mission, will map surface magnetic fields.

PISCATAWAY, N.J., May 25, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- A "hot" topic in space exploration is transient activity, which is one of 12 topics discussed in the May issue on the subject of Solar System Radar & Radio Science of Proceedings of the IEEE, the world's most highly-cited general interest journal in electrical engineering and computer science.

The complete archive of data sets from ESA's 3-year SMART-1 mission to the Moon has been released to the scientific community.

Russia and India are battling China in a modern-day space race to land an unmanned probe on the moon.

WASHINGTON, June 14 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- NASA-funded scientists estimate from recent research that the volume of water molecules locked inside minerals in the moon's interior could exceed the amount of water in the Great Lakes here on Earth.