Moon
You’ll Experience 200 Times More Radiation Standing on the Moon than Standing on the Earth
January 31, 2021, will mark 50 years since the launch of Apollo 14. This historic mission was the first to…
NASA Announces 14 New “Tipping Point” Technologies for its Lunar Exploration
NASA recently awarded contracts to fourteen companies to develop technologies that will help them return to the Moon, and stay…
This is a Landslide… on the Moon
Landslides bringing you down? Landslides can be found all across our own planet Earth, on all seven continents plus the…
What the Astronauts Saw as They Orbited the Moon During Apollo 17
This view always gets me *right there.* But this new version really gets me. This is what Apollo 17 astronauts…
NASA Has a New Challenge to Bring Frozen Samples of the Moon Back to Earth
The NASA Lunar Deep Freeze Challenge is looking for innovative ideas on how to bring back ice samples from the…
We Might Have a New Mini-Moon Soon
Is it a new asteroid mini--moon or a human-made mini-moon? That’s the question about a small object approaching Earth, called…
Artemis Missions Should Bring Ice Home From the Moon Too
In a recent white paper, a team of scientists proposed that NASA's Artemis astronauts should also bring back samples of…
NASA Will Pay You to Retrieve Regolith and Rocks from the Moon
NASA is offering to pay commercial contractors to retrieve lunar regolith and rocks to demonstrate their ability to harvest resources…
Earth’s Oxygen Could be Making the Moon Rust
It takes oxygen to make iron rust. So when scientists discovered hematite spread widely through lunar high latitudes, they were…
Lunar Landings Will Make it Harder to Study the Moon’s Ice Deposits
A new study led by researchers from the JHUAPL indicates that future missions to the Moon could contaminate the lunar…