Moon Surface

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  2 Moon Landings Scheduled Within A Week For NASA's Private Fleet

  More than fifty years passed between the last Apollo mission and the United States' return to the lunar surface when the first-ever private lander touched down last February.

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  Blue Ghost Lunar Lander Set for Historic Moon Landing on March 2, 2025

  Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost lunar lander will make its descent to the Moon on March 2, 2025, near Mare Crisium. This mission, supported by NASA’s CLPS initiative, will carry key scientific payloads to test new technologies for future crewed missions to the Moon and Mars. It aims to collect critical lunar surface data and demonstrate advancemen...

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  ISRO's Chandrayaan-4 to Land on Moon and Bring Back Lunar Samples in 2027

  India’s space agency ISRO is gearing up for the Chandrayaan-4 mission, scheduled for 2027. This ambitious mission will involve a complex system of five modules, launched using two LVM3 rockets. Once in lunar orbit, two modules will descend to the surface, with one collecting samples and the other remaining on the Moon. The sample return module wi...

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  Athena Lunar Mission Set to Deploy 'Gracie' Hopper for Crater Exploration Near Moon's South Pole

  Intuitive Machines, in collaboration with NASA, is preparing to launch the Athena lunar mission, featuring the 'Gracie' hopper designed for crater exploration near the Moon's south pole. Scheduled to launch from Florida's Space Coast within a four-day window starting on February 26, Athena will carry multiple payloads, including 'Gracie,' a small r...

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  Moon's Geological Activity: New Evidence Suggests Surface Changes Persist

  New research suggests the Moon may still be geologically active, as 266 newly discovered wrinkle ridges indicate recent surface changes. The study estimates these ridges formed within the last 160 million years, challenging the belief that lunar activity ended billions of years ago. Scientists believe continued contraction could cause moonquakes, p...

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  Watch: Blue Ghost, On Its Journey To Moon, Captures Stunning Visuals Of Earth

  The 60-day-long Blue Ghost Mission 1, which has a target landing date of March 2, includes nearly 45 days on-orbit and 14 days of lunar surface operations.

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  New Study Finds Active Lunar Tectonics, Challenges Moon’s Dormancy

  A recent study published in The Planetary Science Journal reveals that the moon is still experiencing tectonic activity. Scientists identified 266 small ridges on the far side of the moon, formed within the last 160 to 200 million years. The study suggests these ridges result from geological forces like lunar shrinking and orbital shifts. The findi...

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  Asteroid 2024 PT5 Linked to Lunar Surface, Reveals Planetary Defense Insights

  Asteroid 2024 PT5, sized like a school bus, passed Earth in January at 1.1 million miles. Research suggests it originated from the moon, ejected thousands of years ago by an impact. Spectral analysis matched it to Apollo 14 lunar rocks, ruling out artificial origins. This is the second known lunar asteroid after 469219 Kamo’oalewa. The study hint...

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  Moon Added To List Of Threatened Heritage Sites Amid Space Race Concerns

  Beyond space debris destroying the lunar surface, sites that have significant heritage importance, connecting them to humanity, could also be wrecked.

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  Stunning Images Of Mercury's Surface Captured By ESA Spacecraft

  Barely larger than our own Moon, Mercury orbits precariously close to the Sun at an average distance of roughly 58 million kilometres.

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  Lunar Temperature Fluctuations: Understanding the Moon's Extreme Conditions

  The Moon's surface undergoes extreme temperature shifts, ranging from over 100°C in daylight to minus 100°C in darkness. These fluctuations are due to the lack of atmosphere, which causes rapid temperature changes. The Moon's regolith, poor at conducting heat, leads to insulation at deeper levels. Shaded areas, particularly in lunar pits, maintai...

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  Humans Will Soon Be Able To Mine On The Moon. But Should We?

  By the end of this decade, nations and private companies may well be mining the surface of the Moon.

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  New Study Suggests the Moon Is 100 Million Years Older Than Previously Thought

  Recent findings indicate the Moon might be over 100 million years older than prior estimates. A new study proposes that tidal forces caused intense heating and surface remelting around 4.35 billion years ago, resetting the apparent age of lunar rocks. These insights support the idea that massive collisions formed the Moon much earlier than previous...

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  Jupiter’s Moon Io Shows No Magma Ocean as New Findings Explain Volcanic Eruptions

  NASA's latest findings indicate that Jupiter's volcanic moon Io does not have a global magma ocean beneath its surface, debunking previous theories. This conclusion comes from analysis of data from NASA's Juno spacecraft and archival observations from the Galileo mission. The study suggests that Io's interior is more solid than expected, with volca...

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  ispace and Magna Petra Collaborate for Sustainable Helium-3 Extraction from Moon

  ispace and Magna Petra have joined forces to pioneer sustainable helium-3 extraction from the moon's regolith. Helium-3, a rare isotope critical for energy and technology applications, could be a game-changer for Earth. Magna Petra plans to use environmentally conscious methods to extract and transport the isotope. The initiative aligns with ispace...