SLIM of the lunar surface taken by the LEV-2 (SORA-Q) rover. Credit: JAXA / TOMY / Sony Group Corporation / Doshisha University. NASA's LRO (Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter) twice transmitted a…
Northern Lights and Milky Way over Lake McDonald, Glacier National Park, MontanaGetty Every Monday I pick the upcoming week's North American sky highlights (which also apply to mid-northern latitudes in…
A moon pit in the Mare Tranquillitatis area. Credit: NASA/GSFC/Arizona State University Almost 55 years after the launch of Apollo 11 - the first mission to land humans on the…
Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), astronomers discovered that Ariel, a moon of Uranus, may be hiding in a buried ocean of liquid water. The discovery may provide an…
HELSINKI — China aims to work with 50 countries on its ILRS lunar south pole base program as efforts to attract partners continue. "We are open and welcome international cooperation…
NASA's Cassini-Huygens spacecraft may have dramatically ended its 20-year mission to explore Saturn's surroundings seven years ago when it plunged into the gas giant, but it's still delivering the science…
Space is providing a full moon for the 55th anniversary of the first moon landing this weekend, and many other events honoring Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin's giant leap.Aldrin, 94,…
55 years ago today, raising the Apollo 11 flag on the ancient lunar surface took all of 10 minutes during Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin's two-hour adventure in July 1969.…
With manned Artemis launches on the horizon, NASA is looking for sustainable solutions for waste management during long-duration missions to the Moon. An initiative called LunaRecycle, under the space agency's…
For the first time, an international team of scientists has confirmed the existence of a large underground tunnel beneath the moon's surface that could one day be used by future…