India’s Chandrayaan 3 rover may or may not have stumbled upon the Moon’s mantle material In any case, finding the sulfur-enhanced materials certainly add the Chandrayaan 3 landing region to the list ...

Pre-launch photo and renders of the SPADEX satellites. ISRO designed the satellites such that either could act as the chaser and the other as target for docking. Images: ISRO Illustration of the ...

Qiu Chenhui of China Youth Daily reports based on an April 15 presentation by a Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) researcher Zhang Hao on how the latter’s team managed to put the twin DRO-A and DRO-B ...

Moon Monday #218: A molten Moon, a date for the SPA, sunset for Blue Ghost as well as inclusive Artemis language, and more There’s a lot in this Moon Monday edition to unpack. Grab yourself a coffee ...

India has formally approved the joint ISRO-JAXA Chandrayaan 5 (LUPEX) mission to study water ice on the Moon’s south pole. The mission and its approval are notable in many ways as we’ll see below.

The Blue Ghost lander captured the roughly five-hour long March 14 total solar eclipse from the Moon. You can see the glowing ring of light from the third, latter picture emerging in earlier images in ...

Plus: Intuitive Machines and Lunar Trailblazer launch for Luna while KASA plans the same. And, maybe nobody should “dominate” space. Firefly conducted nearly 100 drop tests on lunar soil simulants to ...

Following the questionable cancellation of NASA’s VIPER rover to uniquely study the Moon’s water ice deposits, the agency asked US organizations on February 3 to formally propose a mission of their ...

ISRO has been publishing monthly summaries of the varied activities and programs of India’s Department of Space (DOS) for years. Lately though, there have been consistent delays in publishing them by ...

As we wrap up an insanely happening 12 months in Moon exploration worldwide, I present to you a huge, curated linked list of lunar technology and science developments across 2024, organized by country ...

The AxEMU suit that Artemis III astronauts will wear on the Moon during excursions. Image: AxiomSpace Illustration of the Lunar Pathfinder communications satellite relaying signals between Earth and ...

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 ...