Lunar experts at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, Maryland, have created a new technical resource to guide technology developers who are designing systems to withstand the ...

The LuGRE payload on Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost set three main records that day in March: transmitting trackable signals from 205,674 miles, then doing the same from Lunar Orbit (243,000 miles), ...

To help astronauts conduct science and exploration on the lunar surface, Eagle also features tool lockers and refrigerated sample containers to help bring home samples of the moon safely.

New shielding technology from NASA that protects against damaging lunar dust just passed a trial run on the moon's surface, marking an important milestone in the agency's lunar aspirations.

An image of the Chang'e 6 lander on the lunar surface at the far side of the moon. | Credit: CNSA There's less water in the mantle beneath the farside of the moon than in the mantle on the ...

You can opt-out at any time. What’s more, scientific data gathered on the lunar surface will pave the way for commercial missions, said David Wheeler, Firefly general counsel. Regolith sample ...

Chandra’s Surface Thermophysical Experiment (ChaSTE), which gathered lunar temperature data, is a small probe near the left front landing pad. Credit: Indian Space Research Organisation Past ...

That the water content within the lunar far and near sides differs seems “coincidentally consistent” with the variations in the surface features of the moon’s two hemispheres, said Sen Hu ...

in what could be a huge step toward building a base on the lunar surface. The Chang'e 8 spacecraft is currently scheduled to launch around 2028. The mission is planned as a stepping stone to China ...

CLPS, started in 2018, is a public-private partnership model through which NASA contracts commercial landers to deliver science and technology payloads to the lunar surface. Blue Ghost Mission 1 ...

PREVIOUS models of the lunar surface layer have necessarily been constructed on the basis of indirect evidence, such as the way in which the surface reflected sunlight and radar pulses ...