The Moon is host to a type of bright feature quite glaringly called swirls. Here is the lunar swirl of Reiner Gamma. Beautiful and bright lunar swirl of Reiner Gamma. It spans well over a hundred ...

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 ...

On October 22, 2008, an Indian PSLV rocket launched the Chandrayaan 1 spacecraft into Earth orbit. After a series of orbit-raising maneuvers, Chandrayaan 1 successfully entered orbit around the Moon ...

I only recently learnt that months were originally called moonths. I’m so going to say moonths now every chance I get. The word has been duly added to my device dictionaries. 🌝 NASA selects Blue Moon ...

I hope you enjoy this bird’s-eye view of all major developments in India’s space trajectory over the last two months! 🚀 A tailor-made truck carrying the large and tall fairing of a Launch Vehicle ...

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 ...

At least two currently known landing regions of NASA CLPS missions show up for Artemis III too. The VIPER rover is set to explore an area near the western edge of the Nobile crater whereas two Artemis ...

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 ...

Many of my headlines make little sense to Google, Web Search Engines, and for SEO. For example, I titled Moon Monday #199 as “Not the fault in our stars but certainly stressful faults on our Moon”.

In my lifelong mission to write about the exploration of space and our Moon, 2022 turned out to be very productive and satiating. I published 51 editions of my one-of-a-kind Moon Monday newsletter, ...

When India’s Mangalyaan spacecraft successfully entered Mars orbit on September 23, 2014, it made ISRO only the fourth organization in the world to achieve the feat, after the United States, the ...