The Chang’e-4 lunar probe, photographed from the Yutu-2 rover. The measuring device from Kiel is located on the left behind the antenna. Credit: CNSA/CLEP In…
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While NASA is working aggressively to meet our near-term goal of landing the first woman and next man on the Moon by 2024, our Artemis…
Commercial landers will carry NASA-provided science and technology payloads to the lunar surface, paving the way for NASA astronauts to land on the Moon by…
A dusty lunar landscape, as envisioned by NASA’s Advanced Concepts Laboratory. Credit: NASA NASA is reaching out to university students to help solve the problem…
The blue areas in this composite image from the Moon Mineralogy Mapper (M3) aboard the Indian Space Research Organization’s Chandrayaan-1 orbiter show water concentrated at…
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech What’s Up for September? The Moon with Mars and Venus, and a star with a planet…that wasn’t. On September 6th, you’ll find the…
Dust sticks to the boots of Apollo 17 astronaut and geologist Harrison “Jack” Schmitt in 1972. Credit: NASA A team led by the University of…
Astronaut Scott Parazynski, while anchored to a foot restraint, assessed his repair work as the solar array was fully deployed while Space Suttle Discovery was…
The Ion Trap Mass Spectrometer (ITMS) imaged here is a part of the Exospheric Mass Spectrometer (EMS) instrument that will detect lunar volatiles from both…
An artist’s concept from 1969 depicts a lunar module descending to the Moon’s surface. Because of the Moon’s very thin atmosphere, the exhaust expands significantly…
Artist’s rendering of NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter. Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center Dozens of times over the last decade NASA scientists have launched laser…
Figure 1. Impact melt breccia and surrounding context. Credit: CNSA, CLEP, and AIR The unusual dark greenish and glistening “gel-like” substance in a crater on…
An asteroid shower on the Earth-Moon system. (Artist’s illustration.) Credit: Murayama/Osaka University A research team led by Osaka University investigated the formation ages of 59…
The Moon is born. Credit: Ron Miller Earth’s natural satellite was formed from debris created by a collision between the young Earth and a protoplanet.…
The JPL-led challenge is seeking tiny payloads no larger than a bar of soap for a miniaturized Moon rover. Credit: NASA The winners for the…
View of Moon Limb, with Earth on the Horizon. Credit: NASA Apollo 11 Mission Image Life on Earth would not be possible without the Moon;…
As NASA prepares for our return to the Moon, innumerable activities to equip, shelter, and otherwise support future astronauts are underway. These astronauts will be…
The composition of the Moon’s near side is oddly different from that of its far side, and scientists think they finally understand why. Credit: NASA/NOAA…
Illustration of NASA’s Volatiles Investigating Polar Exploration Rover (VIPER) on the surface of the Moon. Credit: NASA Ames/Daniel Rutter NASA has awarded Astrobotic of Pittsburgh…
A falling boulder has left a clear trace on the lunar surface. Credit: NASA/GSFC/ASU A research team from ETH Zurich and the Max Planck Institute…