moon missions
Lighting Up the Moon’s Permanently Shadowed Craters
The Moon's polar regions are home to permanently shadowed craters. In those craters is ancient ice, and establishing a presence…
Day Has Returned, but India’s Lander and Rover have Failed to Wake Up
It looks like India's Chandrayaan-3 succumbed to the cold, and its mission is over. The frigid lunar night lasted about…
NASA had Been Designing Lunar Bases for Decades Before Armstrong First Set Foot on the Moon
It's only natural to look at the Moon and wonder what it would be like to live there. Thanks to…
China’s Chang’e-5 Probe Is Off to Bring Back a Moon Sample — and NASA Hopes to See the Data
China's Chang'e-5 probe is on its way to the Moon for a mission that could bring back the first samples of lunar rocks and…
China’s Lander Successfully Grew Some Cotton Plants on the Moon. Fruit Flies and Potatoes Didn’t Fare So Well
When China's Chang'e-4 spacecraft landed on the lunar far side on January 3rd 2019, it made history. It was the…
India’s Chandrayaan-2 is Heading to the Moon
ISRO (Indian Space Research Organization) has successfully launched their Chandrayaan-2 mission to the Moon. The mission, which includes an orbiter,…
SpaceIL Scraps its Plans to go Back to the Moon. Instead, it’s Got a New Secret “Significant Objective” for Beresheet 2
Mystery. Secrecy. A Need-To-Know Basis. These are the hallmarks of science. Wait a minute: no they're not. So what's with…
Weekly Space Hangout – Jan 24, 2018: Paul Hildebrandt’s “First to the Moon”
Hosts: Fraser Cain (universetoday.com / @fcain) Dr. Paul M. Sutter (pmsutter.com / @PaulMattSutter) Dr. Kimberly Cartier (KimberlyCartier.org / @AstroKimCartier )…