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Artemis II images boost NASA’s moon base plans

The first crewed lunar mission in more than a half-century brought back more than 800 gigabytes of data on colorful craters, flashing meteoroids, and much more

The Preliminary Lunar Science Report for Artemis II is Out!

Through photographs, spoken observations, drawings, and annotations, the Artemis II crew created a unique scientific record—one that is now available to the science community and t...

Artemis II crew moon photo annotations

A visualization of a dark moon eclipsing the sun is marked with handwritten notes in this April 6, 2026, screenshot from an Artemis II crew member's tablet.

High-Orbit Laser Satellites Could Guide Future Lunar Travelers

Cislunar space is already getting crowded. And with that crowding comes infrastructure complications. One is navigation - there is no Global Positioning System available when you'r...

NASA обнаружила на Луне свежий кратер от удара астероида размером с многоэтажку

Источник: Компьютерра - Журнал о науке и технологиях Космический аппарат NASA Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, или LRO, обнаружил на Луне крупный кратер, который появился сравнительн...

Once-in-a-Century Impact: NASA Just Found a Massive New Crater on the Moon

NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter helped uncover a 728-foot-wide crater that formed on the Moon in 2024 after a rare, powerful impact. What began as a routine check of lunar mapp...

The Preliminary Lunar Science Report for Artemis II is out

On April 1, 2026, the crew of the Artemis II mission launched into space atop NASA's Space Launch System (SLS). Roughly 3 1/2 hours after launch, the rocket's upper stage separated...

NASA Releases Artemis II Crew’s Handwritten Notes of Moon Meteors

NASA has released an image of the dark side of the Moon complete with handwritten annotations made by the Artemis II crew who were observing it at the time. [Read More]

Release of open AI model trained on 17 years of lunar data maps ice, craters and volcanoes

NASA is bringing artificial intelligence to the study of the moon, helping researchers transform how they analyze its surface. In an ongoing collaboration with IBM Research and sev...

NASA's moon orbiter has spotted an impact crater that only happens once a century

Images taken by the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter led to the discovery of a moon crater that's 728 feet wide. Impacts like that only happen once a century.

New Lunar Crater Offers Keys To Moon’s Shallow Subsurface

Asteroids which strike the Moon and create new craters offer lunar scientists a window onto the workings of our natural satellite’s shallow subsurface.

NASA JPL testing readies Voyager technologies lander for moon mission

A commercial lander that will be at the forefront of NASA's efforts to establish a moon base, humanity's first lunar outpost, has passed a series of critical tests at the agency's...

Report pinpoints future exploration sites on the moon

Besides building crewed outposts at the lunar south pole, where else should astronauts go on the moon? An authoritative new report has suggestions

A New Surface Atlas of Phobos Will Help JAXA's MMX Mission Collect its Samples

JAXA's Martian Moon eXploration (MMX) will be on its way to Mars and Phobos next month. It will collect samples from Phobos and return them to Earth. A new morphodynamic atlas of t...

Japan probe on its way to Mars moon

Newly Discovered "Once-in-a-Century' Moon Crater Larger Than Two Football Fields

Learn more about the latest moon crater spotted by the LRO and how it changed the moon's surface. 

Why the Roman Telescope Is Bound For a Cosmic Sweet Spot Far Beyond the Moon

Learn how L2 will give NASA’s Roman Space Telescope the stable temperatures and open view it needs to observe the universe.

To Build a Moon Base, NASA First Needs Lunar GPS

As NASA prepares for a permanent presence on the lunar surface, it’s developing a new navigation system to keep track of astronauts, spacecraft, and rovers. Discover more about it....

Lunar orbiter spots ‘once-in-a-lifetime’ new crater on the moon

By Deblina Chakraborty, CNN (CNN) — The moon’s surface experienced a violent encounter with a comet or an asteroid — and has a massive battle scar to prove it. The space rock, esti...

Ученые готовятся к экспериментам с образцами грунта с обратной стороны Луны

Российские ученые готовятся к экспериментам и исследованию образцов грунта с обратной стороны Луны, полученных китайским аппаратом "Чанъэ-6", сообщил РИА Новости ведущий инженер, к...

NASA spots a giant patch of Moon-like rock on Earth

An astronaut aboard the International Space Station photographed a remarkable formation in Madagascar that looks surprisingly similar to the Moon’s bright highlands. Made of anorth...

What could the Artemis IV astronauts discover on the Moon?

NASA is already planning what the crew will do on their lunar landing mission.

A SpaceX Falcon 9 Rocket Hit the Moon and Blasted Open a 60-Foot Crater

A spent rocket stage has punched a new crater into the Moon, giving scientists a rare chance to watch lunar geology unfold almost in real time. NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter...

Полутонный ровер Astrolab спроецирует рекламу на поверхность Луны

Источник: Компьютерра - Журнал о науке и технологиях Американская компания Astrolab готовит к полету на Луну роботизированный аппарат FLIP, который совместит исследовательские зад...