Exploring the Moon: Scientists and Engineers Design Lunar Cave Explorer
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….
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….
Like a time capsule that was sealed for posterity, one of the last unopened Apollo-era lunar samples collected during Apollo 17 has been opened under…
Here’s your chance to participate in NASA’s return to the Moon with the Artemis program! NASA is inviting people to submit their names to be…
People say good things come to those who wait. NASA thinks 50 years is the right amount of time as it begins tapping into one…
Following a competition, ESA has selected the industrial team that will design and build the first experimental payload to extract oxygen from the surface of…
Observers have been tracking a chunk of space junk, waiting for it to strike the Moon. It should’ve hit the far side of the Moon,…
The dusty faces of the Moon and Mars conceal unseen hazards for future explorers. Areas of highly oxidizing material could be sufficiently reactive that they…
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…
The accidental experiment will shed light on the physics of impacts in space. On March 4, 2022, a lonely, spent rocket booster will smack into…
Under Artemis, NASA plans to return to the Moon using innovative technologies to explore more of the lunar surface than ever before. This will require…
This study is led by Dr. Zhiyong Xiao (Planetary Environmental and Astrobiological Research Laboratory, School of Atmospheric Sciences, Sun Yat-sen University), who is a core…
Companies with technologies that may advance exploration but need a little extra push to finalize development have two new opportunities to partner with NASA to…
Last month, astronomers reported that a discarded upper stage of a Falcon 9 rocket, launched 7 years ago, was on a collision course with the…
Katriin Kristmann, a doctoral student in chemical and materials science at TalTech (Tallinn University of Technology), began research aimed at developing technology for the production…
Sophisticated analysis of a rock sample taken from the Moon during the Apollo 17 mission nearly 50 years ago revealed new information about the complex…
Although it looks fake, this viral footage of the Moon orbiting Earth is actually real. It’s just not new, despite making the rounds again this…
Update as of February 15: Additional analysis by, among others, citizen-scientist Bill Gray and colleagues at NASA’s JPL, now indicates that the object expected to impact the…
In the image below, the test version of NASA’s Volatiles Investigating Polar Exploration Rover, or VIPER, kicks up high sinkage sand-like material while transiting NASA…