NASA has identified nine locations near the Moon’s south pole for the first crewed lunar landing since Apollo 17.

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This alignment ensures the entire side of the Moon that faces us gleams under sunlight. Thanks to the Moon’s orbit around Earth, the angle of sunlight hitting the lunar surface and being ...

videoNeil Armstrong Learn about Neil Armstrong's historic voyage to the Moon with this short animated film for primary schools. The Work of Nicolaus Copernicus ... Moon got its craters by creating ...

A true lunar economy could thus emerge. Moonlight, this ESA project aiming to put satellites in orbit around the Moon to facilitate communication and navigation during upcoming operations Moreover, ...

Scientists from Manchester believe they have solved the mystery of the age of a giant crater on the Moon - with analysis ... results to data collected by Nasa’s Lunar Prospector mission, which orbited ...

A 6-mile-think shell of methane ice on Saturn's moon Titan could assist in the hunt for life signs arising from this moon's ...

China’s Long March 10A rocket is set to have its first flight in 2026, in what will be a crucial step in the country’s efforts to get astronauts on the moon. A model of the Long March ...

In 1969, Apollo 11 astronaut Neil Armstrong stepped onto the moon's surface—a momentous engineering and science feat marked ...

Today, Nov. 8, 2024, the moon is 7 days old and is in the Waxing Crescent phase of its lunar cycle. It is 44% illuminated. Moon phases reveal the passage of time in the night sky. Some nights when ...

NASA-supported scientists have developed a method to compute how tides affect the interiors of planets and moons, which will ...

DART's goal was to examine how well a planetary defense strategy in moving a threatening space rock away from Earth. Hera will examine the collision from a nearby vantage point, providing a different ...