Animation of NASA’s Volatiles Investigating Polar Exploration Rover (VIPER) on the surface of the Moon. Credit: NASA Ames/Daniel Rutter As any seasoned road-tripper knows, to…
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The Peregrine Ion-Trap Mass Spectrometer (PITMS), an instrument that will explore how water molecules, possibly created on the surface by the solar wind, are released…
Illustration of an Artemis astronaut on the Moon. Credit: NASA NASA is preparing to establish a regular cadence of trips to the Moon under Artemis.…
Credit: NASA Many cultures name full Moons, and while the names differ, we can all agree that June’s full Moon was a sweet sight to…
The Moon rises as a Metrorail car crosses the Potomac River in Washington D.C. on July 16, 2019 – 50 years to the day after…
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…
Placing habitats by lunar South Pole. Credit: SOM A detailed concept for a lunar habitat, created by one of the world’s leading architectural firms with…
Colorized screenshots of the exact shapes of moon dust collected during the Apollo 11 mission. NIST researchers and collaborators developed a method of measuring these…
Eugene Cernan on the Moon, December 13, 1972, during the Apollo 17 mission, the last manned flight to the Earth’s natural satellite. Credit: NASA The…
A perigee full moon, or supermoon, is seen during a total lunar eclipse on Sunday, September 27, 2015, in Washington, DC. The combination of a…
An aircraft taking off in front of a supermoon as it rises in 2017. Credit: NASA/Bill Ingalls Capturing the Moon with a camera is one…
A red blood moon is caused by sunlight passing through the Earth’s atmosphere. Credit: U.S. Navy/Joshua Valcarcel/WikimediaCommons The first lunar eclipse of 2021 is going…
As part of the Artemis program, NASA is planning to send its first mobile robot to the Moon in late 2023 in search of ice and other…
A constellation of satellites around the Moon. Credit: ESA A bold proposal to create a commercially viable constellation of lunar satellites has taken a step…
From left to right, students Austin Pritts, Taia Saurer, and Amanda Gutierrez have been named the winners of the Moon Pod Essay Contest for their…
The massive Space Launch Systems (SLS) rocket that will launch the first crewless test flight of the Orion spacecraft is being integrated at the Vehicle…
This illustration depicts a conceptual Lunar Crater Radio Telescope on the Moon’s far side. The early-stage concept is being studied under grant funding from the…
View of the southern, midlatitude far side of the moon showing the SPA basin outlined in white and the Schrödinger basin outlined in yellow (modified…
Crewmembers spend days to months in the HI-SEAS Mars/moon habitat atop Mauna Loa. Credit: HI-SEAS Imagine trying to pick up a pebble or scrape microbes…
Women temporarily synchronize their menstrual cycles with the luminance and gravimetric cycles of the Moon. An analysis of long-term menstrual cycle records kept by 22…