#Lunar

A team of scientists is exploring ways to use dark craters at the lunar poles as sites for ultrastable lasers to aid in surface and near-lunar navigation.…

Failure will likely delay US space agency’s efforts to beat China to the lunar surface. Failure will likely delay US space agency’s efforts to beat China to the lunar surface.

Rovers, drones, and landers will usher in a sustained lunar presence, under the new plan NASA announced this week.

Scientists used Chandrayaan-2’s advanced radar system to detect possible subsurface ice beneath permanently shadowed lunar craters.

NASA's MoonFall mission plans to send drones to the moon's South Pole sometime in 2028.

Explosion wrecks rocket and pad, leaving NASA's lunar ambitions looking less than launch-ready

The project’s first mission could arrive as soon as this year, with a little help from Blue Origin.

Here's when to see a pair of massive letters shining on the lunar surface around May's first quarter moon phase.

The base's perimeter may be marked by hopping "MoonFall" drones, and new moon rovers built by AstroLab and Lunar Outpost will carry astronauts around the site.

"We will comprehensively boost relevant technical maturity and task reliability, so as to lay a solid foundation for China's first crewed lunar landing."

"While mass drivers can bootstrap an off-world economy, they carry an equally potent and unsettling military capability: the ability to operate as an unassailable, undetectable first-strike platform."

Exploring the first crewed Artemis mission, the future of lunar exploration and how spaceflight could help inspire greener technologies on Earth

Moon Base Alpha is real. The success of Artemis II’s lunar loop in April has energized plans for a permanent lunar foothold in the next decade.…

Katherine Rauscher, of Michigan Technological University, prepares her team’s prototype lunar robot for its turn during the finals for NASA’s 2026 Lunabotics Challenge competition on Tuesday, May 19, 2026, inside the Astronauts Memorial Foundation’s…

Earth has a group of cosmic stalkers. Known as “co-orbitals”, these small bits of rock have a 1:1 mean motion resonance with Earth. Basically, they take the exact same amount of time to orbit the Sun as we do.…

Artemis II has barely left the headlines. On April 1st 2026, four astronauts climbed aboard NASA's Orion spacecraft, rode the most powerful rocket ever to carry humans beyond low Earth orbit, and swung around the far side of the Moon. The world watched.…

SpaceX and Blue Origin may yet get a role in low Earth orbit rehearsal, readiness permitting