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 ...

And more such interesting Moon exploration updates from China’s National Space Day on April 24. It was in late 2023 that China opened up sample research applications to foreign scientists. The process ...

Multi-agency instruments planned to be on the LUPEX rover. Image: JAXA / M. Ohtake, et al. India approved the joint ISRO-JAXA Chandrayaan 5 / LUPEX mission to drill and analyze water ice on the Moon.

The Chandrayaan 3 lander on the Moon with its ChaSTE thermal probe deployed. Image: ISRO Left: Temperature profiles measured by the ten ChaSTE sensors at different depths; Right: Structural diagram of ...

There’s a lot in this Moon Monday edition to unpack. Grab yourself a coffee or another mild drug of choice and let’s get started. 🤓 An artist's concept of our Moon shortly after its formation, with a ...

Last week I wrote how the annual report of NSIL, an Indian government arm tasked with commercializing ISRO’s space technologies, notes that ISRO provided commercial ground tracking support for a lunar ...

A panorama from the Chang’e 6 lander on the Moon’s farside, showing one of its legs and the scoop sampling arm near its surface digs. Image: CNSA / CLEP Chinese researchers have published a whole ...

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 ...

NASA’s VIPER lunar rover after acing thermal vacuum testing. Image: Anthony Colaprete / NASA The Planetary Society has been holding multiple meetings of lunar scientists with US congressional staff, ...

A close look at scooped lunar farside samples brought to Earth by China’s Chang’e 6 mission. They contain a diversity of stony, volcanic, impact-induced and glassy materials. Image: Chunlai Li, et al.

I’d like to take this moment to highlight four things working on Moon Monday has enabled: It’s truly gratifying to be able to write Moon Monday as the world’s only such resource and serve space ...