The U.S.-led Artemis mission that will send humans to the moon for the first time in half a century has adopted a system developed by Japanese researchers to study the lunar surface.

Japan’s space agency said Thursday that its first lunar mission hit the tiny patch of the moon’s surface it was aiming for, in a successful demonstration of its pinpoint landing system — although the ...

Our moon is quietly shrinking, causing thousands of new cracks and moonquakes. Scientists have identified over 1,100 new surface fractures, particularly in the lunar plains, indicating a dynamic, ...

NASA is turning robotic landers into lunar scouts, probing heat, dust, and radiation to decode the Moon’s hidden risks before ...

New research suggests the Moon is still tectonically active, with small ridges and moonquakes revealing ongoing crustal movement. This is a key concern for future Artemis missions that will be ...

Scientists may have spotted a long-lost Soviet Union Lander, over 60 years after it vanished on the surface of the moon.

Once thought dormant, the Moon is now revealed to be a dynamic world. Cooling and contracting, its crust fractures, creating cliffs and generating measurable moonquakes. Recent studies confirm this ...

The lander became the first spacecraft to send back pictures of the Moon, three years before Apollo 11. The post Scientists Spot Signs of Derelict Soviet Moon Lander on Lunar Surface appeared first on ...

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