The Next Full Moon is the Snow, Storm, and Hunger Moon; the Moon of the…
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The Moon, Earth’s only natural satellite, has captivated humanity for millennia and remains a vital focus of scientific research and exploration. Its surface preserves a record of the solar system’s early history, offering insights into planetary formation, asteroid impacts, and volcanic activity. Modern studies of the Moon inform our understanding of Earth’s tides, climate stability, and even the potential for future human settlement beyond our planet. From lunar geology to the search for water ice and new missions from space agencies and private companies, explore the latest findings and developments in Moon science and exploration.
In a first step towards uncovering the Moon’s subterranean secrets, in 2019 ESA asked for…
New Evidence Links Moon Phases to Human Sleep Cycles For centuries, humans have blamed the…
NASA Selects SpaceX for Gateway Launch NASA has selected Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX) of Hawthorne,…
NASA’s LRO overcame a critical sensor failure through the innovative FastMan algorithm, enabling the spacecraft…
NASA is improving a flight software system to help create and certify essential software for…
GBT-VLBA System Images Lunar Landscape The National Science Foundation’s Green Bank Observatory (GBO) and National…
NASA asked university students around the country to help solve the pesky problem of lunar…
Firefly Aerospace will deliver 10 science payloads to the Moon in 2023 under NASA’s CLPS…
NASA will build Artemis Base Camp at the Moon’s South Pole, where sunlight and shadow…
A new study suggests that lunar water is not only formed by the solar wind…
High tides may even counter the potential threat of submarine methane release from the warming…
On January 13, 2021, NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory, or SDO, experienced its first lunar transit…
NASA’s New 3D Explorer Brings Lunar and Meteorite Samples Online. NASA’s astromaterials sample collections, which…
Sending the first Artemis mission to the Moon in preparation for human missions, landing a…
The Next Full Moon is the Wolf Moon, Ice Moon, Cold Moon, the Moon after…
Simulations rule out plasmas caused by meteoroid impacts as the source of lunar magnetism, supporting…
This week in 1972 (specifically, December 11, 1972), Apollo 17 landed on the lunar surface…