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2025 is the year that introduces the Great Lunar Armada! A small fleet of private and publicly-funded orbiters, landers, and rovers are heading off to explore Luna Incognita

It's been six decades since NASA first touched down in outback WA, and it's given current and former residents of Carnarvon plenty of reasons to celebrate.

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Madeleine Finlay and Ian Sample discuss three intriguing science stories from the week. From two private moon landings to the controversy over Elon Musk’s continued membership of the Royal Society,...

With NASA announcing plans to build a nuclear reactor on the Moon, what would happen if a meltdown strikes?

What can parabolic flights teach scientists and engineers about electrolyzers and how the latter can help advance human missions to the Moon and Mars? This is the goal of a recent grant awarded to the...

NASA's Artemis moon program faces challenges the Apollo missions never did

Explore Chandrayaan-3’s south pole discoveries: elemental chemistry, buried impact crater, magma ocean remnants, thermal mapping, and water ice clues.

Les risques s'accumulent pour le programme lunaire américain. Le conseil de sécurité aérospatiale de la NASA appelle à une révision des objectifs, des contrats et des procédures pour garantir la sûreté des astronautes et la réussite des futures missions, notamment Artemis 3, espérée pour septembre 2028.

Joanneum Research, a Styrian research organisation, is leading a project to develop communication technologies for future Moon missions, ORF reported. The work is being carried out with the University of Vigo in Spain after the team was commissioned by the European Space Agency. The project aims …

NASA has announced the selection of four critical lunar missions as part of its broader strategy to establish a sustainable human presence on the Moon. These missions, funded by a $600 million investment, will focus on deploying advanced scientific instruments and infrastructure to support long-term habitation. The projects include developing technology for navigation systems, studying lunar dust composition, mapping radiation levels, and testing new rovers and satellites. Key partners in these efforts are Astrobotic, Firefly Aerospace, and Intuitive Machines, which will deliver payloads via the Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) initiative. The missions aim to lay the groundwork for a permanent lunar base by 2030, with plans to conduct resource extraction experiments and test life-support systems. This initiative aligns with NASA's Artemis program goals, which seek to return humans to the Moon and establish a research outpost. Scientists emphasize that these missions will provide crucial data on lunar conditions, enabling future exploration of Mars and other celestial bodies. The collaboration between private companies and government agencies highlights a growing trend in space exploration, where public-private partnerships drive innovation and reduce costs. While challenges such as radiation exposure and equipment reliability remain, the progress made by these missions represents a significant step toward humanity's long-term presence beyond Earth.

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NASA’s Artemis program, which aims to return astronauts to the moon this decade amid a renewed international push for lunar exploration, is facing some lengthy delays, the space agency has announced...