The CAPSTONE mission is planned for launch in 2021. Rocket Lab’s Photon satellite bus will deliver CAPSTONE into a trajectory toward the Moon. Credit: NASA/Rocket…
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[unable to retrieve full-text content] Scientists at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, recently received samples of the lunar surface that have been…
Artist’s impression of Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd (SSTL)’s Lunar Pathfinder satellite that will provide communications services around the Moon. Credit: SSTL The test version of…
Michael Zanetti, a NASA planetary scientist at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, hikes the Cinder cone in Potrillo volcanic field in New…
The fifth Moon landing mission began with the April 16, 1972 launch of Apollo 16. The giant SaturnSaturn is the sixth planet from the sun…
This April full moon is known as the pink moon because it heralds the arrival of spring flowers. The next full moon is the Pink…
A new study reveals that an ancient collision on the Moon’s south pole changed patterns of convection in the lunar mantle, concentrating a suite of…
NASA’s ER-2 aircraft shown ready for fueling and flight preparations. Credit: Ken Ulrich NASAEstablished in 1958, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is an…
NASA names two national winners for the Lunabotics Junior contest: Lucia Grisanti, for grades K-5 and Shriya Sawant for the grades 6-12 were selected from…
A constellation of satellites around the Moon. Credit: ESA ESA is going to the Moon – in collaboration with its international partners – and seeks…
Lunar caves are not only a geologically pristine record of the Moon’s history, but they could also provide a safe home for future human explorers.…
Apollo 17 astronaut Gene Cernan preparing to collect samples 73001 and 73002 on the Moon in 1972. Gene Cernan collected the sample from a landslip…
[unable to retrieve full-text content] Like a time capsule that was sealed for posterity, one of the last unopened Apollo-era lunar samples collected during Apollo…
Here’s your chance to participate in NASAEstablished in 1958, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is an independent agency of the United States Federal…
[unable to retrieve full-text content] People say good things come to those who wait. NASA thinks 50 years is the right amount of time as…
This image shows the cargo configuration of the European Large Logistics Lander, delivering supplies and even rovers or robots to the Moon’s surface for astronauts…
Artist’s animation of a rocket booster crashing into the moon. Observers have been tracking a chunk of space junk, waiting for it to strike the…
A view from the “Kimberley” formation on Mars taken by NASA’s Curiosity rover. The strata in the foreground dip towards the base of Mount Sharp,…
Add your name here to have it included on a flash drive that will fly aboard Artemis I. Artemis I will be the first uncrewed…
Artist’s animation of a rocket booster crashing into the moon. The accidental experiment will shed light on the physics of impacts in space. On March…