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…
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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…
NASA is developing a nuclear reactor (shown in this artist’s rendition) that could power a human settlement on the moon. Credit: NASA It might sound…
Earth’s natural satellite taken by ESA astronaut Luca Parmitano during his Beyond mission on the International Space Station on 15 August 2019. Credit: ESA/NASA–L. Parmitano…
Illustration of Artemis astronauts on the Moon. Credit: NASA NASA has selected three U.S. companies to design and develop human landing systems (HLS) for the agency’s Artemis program, one of which will…
ESA’s light-studded Rover Autonomy Testbed seen during night testing in Tenerife, intended to simulate the low light environment of the lunar poles. Credit: Fernando Gandía/GMV…
The heavily cratered surface of the Moon’s South Pole. Credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio Research of an Apollo 17 sample, led by…
Setting up a future lunar base could be made much simpler by using a 3D printer to build it from local materials. Industrial partners including…