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 ...

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 ...

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”.

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 ...

The Moon is home to some amazing mountains. Unlike the millions of years it takes for most mountains on Earth to form via slowly colliding tectonic plates, most lunar mountains form near-instantly ...

A popular YouTube channel has worked with me to create another video based on my Moon Monday blog+newsletter, this time on the next three Moon landing missions by Intuitive Machines for NASA as part ...

An illustration showing NASA’s VIPER rover egressing from Astrobotic’s Griffin lander. Image: Astrobotic Neither NASA nor Astrobotic have shared results of these tests with the public, which is all ...