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Russia heads to the Moon for the first time in 47 years
Russia is heading back to the Moon as it tries to reassert itself as a significant world power in the wake of its war on Ukraine. A rocket carrying the Luna-25 craft will mark Russia’s first lunar mission since 1976. The expedition will attempt to land the exploration vehicle on the moon’s south pole, hoping to dig up water ice beneath the surface. You can tune in to watch the launch here.
ISS experiment will help scientists work out how to keep astronauts cool in space
Northrop Grumman's 19th resupply mission carrying a module with hardware that could help us understand how heating and air conditioning systems can operate in reduced gravity.
Hitting the Books: How NASA helped JFK build his 'Nation of Immigrants'
After Apollo: Cultural Legacies of the Race to the Moon, explores the myriad ways that putting a man on the moon changed the American Experience.
Saturn’s moon Enceladus could support species similar to Earth
Saturn’s moon Enceladus has phosphorous. The finding came from recently analyzed icy particles emitted from the natural satellite’s ocean plumes, detected by NASA’s Cassini spacecraft. The discovery means Enceladus has all the chemical building blocks for life as we know it on Earth. “This is the final one saying, ‘Yes, Enceladus does have all of the ingredients that typical Earth life would need to live and that the ocean there is habitable for life as we know it,” Morgan Cable, astrobiology chemist at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, told The Wall Street Journal.
NASA picks Blue Origin to build the Artemis V Moon landing system
NASA has chosen TKTKTK to develop the Artemius V Moon landing system.
NASA ends its Lunar Flashlight mission
The CubeSat failed to enter the moon's orbit on its ice-finding operation.
Watch Japan's ispace try to land on the Moon today at 12:40PM ET
A Japanese company could be the first private outfit to land on the Moon — you can watch the attempt live.
These are the astronauts that will fly on NASA's Artemis 2 mission around the Moon
NASA has named the four astronauts that will fly around the Moon during the Artemis 2 mission.
SpaceX’s Starship will carry an SUV-sized rover to the Moon in 2026
Meet FLEX, a lunar vehicle that's bigger than NASA's Perseverance rover and can travel at up to 15 miles per hour.
Lockheed Martin is building a Moon-to-Earth satellite communications network
Lockheed Martin's new startup will build a network of satellites to keep Moon explorers in contact with Earth.
Water trapped in tiny glass beads on the Moon could hydrate future settlements
China’s Chang’e 5 rover has found tiny glass beads containing water in an impact crater on the Moon. Samples collected from a 2020 mission found beads with water content as high as 2,000 parts per million (PPM).
UK Space Agency funds Rolls-Royce's bid to put a nuclear reactor on the moon
Rolls-Royce is creating a nuclear micro-reactor to power future moon bases.
MIT’s new modular lunar robot has ‘worms’ for arms
MIT engineers have designed a walking lunar robot cleverly inspired by the animal kingdom. The “mix-and-match” system is made of worm-like robotic limbs astronauts could configure into various “species” of robots resembling spiders, elephants, goats and oxen. The team won the Best Paper Award last week at the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Aerospace Conference.
Space organizations want the moon to have its own time zone
A joint international effort is now being launched towards establishing a standard time for the moon.
Blue Origin made solar cells by smelting simulated Moon dust
Blue Origin has made solar cells using lunar soil — a potential boon for future Moon exploration.
NASA’s Artemis 1 Orion spacecraft returns to Kennedy Space Center
After a 1.4 million flight to the Moon and back (and a cross-country road trip across the US), NASA's Artemis 1 Orion spacecraft returned to Kennedy Space Center for closer inspection.
Everything NASA is taking to the moon before colonizing Mars
NASA’s goal for Artemis is simple: to re-establish a human foothold on the Moon for the first time since 1972, and stay there. Here's how they'll do it.
NASA’s Artemis 1 moon mission has returned to Earth
After a 25-and-a-half day flight to the Moon and back, NASA's Artemis 1 mission has returned to Earth.
Blue Origin makes another bid for a NASA lunar lander contract
Astrobotic, which has developed a lunar rover, and Boeing are among Blue Origin's latest lunar lander partners.
NASA posts high-resolution images of Orion's final lunar flyby
Orion just made its final pass around the moon on its way to Earth, and NASA has just released some of the best photos it's snapped so far.
