Updates on CLPS, ispace, Artemis, Chandrayaan 4, and more. Read to the end for a fact check on an op-ed. How long do you think this hold is going to be? We don't have a lot of gas to play with," one ...

As a former science officer at TeamIndus, I selected landing sites for their Moon missions, identified science objectives, and converted them to engineering requirements. Here are notable works I was ...

Before we begin, a note that my thoughts are with everyone affected by the fires in southern California as well as by last week’s 6.8-magnitude earthquake in Xizang, China. One thing that is notable ...

How will ISRO go from Chandrayaan 3 to an Indian on the Moon? Clarifying and laying down India’s plans for increasingly complex robotic lunar missions, where human spaceflight comes in, and what ...

I started blogging in 2011 out of a desire to share the excitement of science with people. My initial writings were amateur to say the least, and remained so for years. But I kept writing anyway. Fast ...

To piece together this story, I spoke to experts from JAXA, NASA, and ISRO. When Japan’s solar-powered SLIM lander made a lopsided-but-successful touchdown on the Moon on January 19, most news ...

Seen here is the twisty rille of Hadley, an ancient lava channel near which NASA's Apollo 15 spacecraft landed. Hadley rille as seen by ESA’s SMART-1 spacecraft. Image is roughly 80 kilometers across.

Seen here is the striking multi-ring impact basin stretching 930 kilometers in diameter, called Mare Orientale. Orientale basin as captured by NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO). Credit: NASA ...

India’s ambitious mission to land on the Moon, Chandrayaan 2, failed as the Vikram lander crashed on the lunar surface. Even if the mission had gone as planned, both Vikram and the rover Pragyan would ...

The next five years of exploring our Moon will not just be marked by the upcoming armada of robotic landers but also the sheer diversity of mobile explorers they’ll deploy. Here’s a look at all the ...

For NASA to safely land 12 astronauts on the Moon with the Apollo missions, a lot had to go right. But to even attempt Apollo, the agency needed to know what our Moon is like up close. Worrying about ...

Where did our Moon come from? The origin of our cosmic neighbor is a fundamental question in planetary science. From Galileo’s first telescopic observations of the Moon to humans walking on its ...