Plus: Contextualizing the failure of Intuitive Machines’ second Moon mission and that of Lunar Trailblazer as grave losses for NASA. In the half a lunar day since its local morning landing, Firefly ...

Plus: Intuitive Machines and Lunar Trailblazer launch for Luna while KASA plans the same. And, maybe nobody should “dominate” space. Firefly conducted nearly 100 drop tests on lunar soil simulants to ...

Plus: Scientific archives as your Wild Card, a Draw Four for Boeing, UNO Reverse with Japan, and a stack of Artemis updates.

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 ...

Our Earth as captured by the Blue Ghost lunar lander from Earth orbit on January 23, 2025. Image: Firefly Aerospace After NASA transferred operations of two of its key lunar orbital imagers to ...

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, ...

Welcome back to Moon Monday! 2024 was a happening year for global lunar exploration. We start this month with the impending launch of two Moon landers so 2025 seems thrilling already. Before diving ...

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, ...

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 ...

The most plausible scenario for the formation of the crater chain is impact by a comet or an asteroid. Comets and asteroid are weakly held together by their minuscule gravity, and can be ripped apart ...

The Chandrayaan 3 spacecraft stack is seen here mounted in an acoustic chamber. The stack comprises the lander and an orbiter for co-flight until lunar orbit. Credit: ISRO The 1752-kilogram ...