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 ...

Many people think that the Moon is just a gray ball of rock in our sky. Surprisingly, many scientists seem to share this notion. I once had a physicist tell me the Moon is scientifically boring. None ...

Traveling the vast distances of space isn’t cheap for a spacecraft. It costs time, fuel and money. Fortunately, nature offers free help along the way which mission designers are happy to take. Enter ...

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 ...

Me, speaking at the European Space Agency, ESTEC in Netherlands.

This diagram shows the approximate relative sizes of our solar system’s planets, moons and dwarf planets, Credit: Emily Lakdawalla / The Planetary Society Our solar system is a wondrous place.

For most of the 20th century, scientists thought the Moon’s surface was bone-dry. The 382 kilograms of rock and soil samples brought by the Apollo missions to Earth attested to this. When they did ...

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 ...

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 ...

ISRO’s Chandrayaan craft have viewed a solar eclipse, studied the Sun’s flares, and observed Earth as an exoplanet, all from the vantage point of lunar orbit. This is a story shared with me by the ...

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Unlike traditional missions, these CLPS missions are fully built, operated and managed by their companies, with minimal oversight from NASA. The agency only dictates preferences for the landing sites, ...