Illustration of Lunar IceCube in orbit investigating lunar ice. Credit: Morehead State University Lunar IceCube, NASAEstablished in 1958, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)…
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The Cislunar Autonomous Positioning System Technology Operations and Navigation Experiment, or CAPSTONE, is a CubeSat that will fly a unique orbit around the Moon intended…
Artist’s rendering of NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter. Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center Scientists have discovered shaded locations within pits on the Moon that always…
An illustration of Draper’s SERIES-2 lunar lander, which will deliver science and technology payloads to the Moon for NASA in 2025. Credit: Draper Draper of…
Bombardment History Revealed: The Moon Sustained Twice As Many Impacts As Can Be Seen on Its Surface
This multi-temporal illumination map of the lunar south pole was created from images taken by NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter. Credit: NASA/GSFC/Arizona State University Scientists have…
A full moon rises over Griffith Observatory in Los Angeles in August 2021. Credit: NASA/Preston Dyches The next full moon is called the Buck Supermoon,…
The Cislunar Autonomous Positioning System Technology Operations and Navigation Experiment, or CAPSTONE, is a CubeSat that will fly a unique orbit around the Moon intended…
The Cislunar Autonomous Positioning System Technology Operations and Navigation Experiment, or CAPSTONE, mission launched at 5:55 a.m. EDT Tuesday, June 28, 2022, on Rocket Lab’s…
CAPSTONE in orbit near the Moon: Once released from Rocket Lab’s Photon satellite bus, CAPSTONE will use its propulsion system to travel for approximately three…
Rocket Lab’s Electron rocket sits on the pad at the company’s Launch Complex 1 in New Zealand for wet dress rehearsal ahead of the CAPSTONE…
Artist’s animation of a rocket booster crashing into the moon. Astronomers discovered a rocket body heading toward a lunar collision late last year. Impact occurred…
Fission surface power systems – depicted in this conceptual illustration – could provide reliable power for human exploration of the Moon under Artemis. Credit: NASA…
Artist’s illustration of China’s Chang’e 5 moon sample-return spacecraft. Credit: CNSA/NASA China’s first lunar sample-return mission, Chang’e 5, is the fifth lunar exploration mission of…
Artist’s concept of a “strawberry” supermoon. The Next Full Moon is the Strawberry Supermoon; the Mead, Honey, or Rose Moon; the Flower, Hot, Hoe, or…
NASA is planning to send a lander and rover to the beautiful Gruithuisen Domes, as seen in this controlled mosaic, and LROC images will help…
The moon’s Orientale Basin as seen by NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter. Credit: NASA GSFC Billions of years ago, a series of volcanic eruptions raged on…
NASA plans to send astronauts to the Moon under Artemis missions to prepare for human exploration of Mars in the future. Now they are calling…
Rob Ferl, left, and Anna-Lisa Paul looking at the plates filled part with lunar soil and part with control soils, now under LED growing lights.…
The appearance of the Moon during the May 2022 total lunar eclipse. Credit: NASA’s Scientific Visualization Studio On the night of May 15, 2022, and…
Stock photo illustrating a plant growing on the moon. Scientists have grown plants in soil from the Moon, a first in human history and a…