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Astronomers love a challenge. They place their observatories on the highest mountains, in the driest deserts, on the coldest ice shelves, beneath the deepest oceans, in orbit around Earth and the Sun,...

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Aviation News – The European lunar rover MONA LUNA has completed its first major test campaign at the European Space Agency’s LUNA centre in Cologne, demonstrating strong performance on loose soil, slopes, and obstacles—key conditions for future Moon missions. Unveiled only five months ago at the Paris Air Show, MONA LUNA is the result of a collaborative effort across Venturi Space’s sites in Monaco, Switzerland, and France.

Credit: NASA NASA has selected the University of Alabama at Birmingham to provide the necessary systems required to return temperature sensitive science payloads to Earth from the Moon. The Lunar Freezer...

When Chang’e-6 returned sticky lunar soil from the far side, Chinese researchers saw more than just dust in a sample jar.

A new report outlines the benefits and obstacles to a lunar telescope. It comes from the Keck Institute for Space Studies, and presents an idea for a lunar optical interferometer. The authors say it could...

These rare samples, uncovered on the moon by China’s Chang’e 6 mission, might help to reveal secrets of how the solar system evolved

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Quantum cryogenics manufacturer Bluefors is betting big on Interlune, a startup that aims to extract Helium-3 from the lunar surface by 2028.

The AI-powered robots can work autonomously and share findings with each other.

How can thermoelectric generators (TEGs) help advance future lunar surface habitats? This is what a recent study published in Acta Astronautica hopes to address as a team of researchers from the Republic of Korea investigated a novel technique for improving power efficiency and reliability under the moon's harsh conditions. This study has the potential to help mission planners, engineers, and future astronauts develop technologies necessary for deep space human exploration to the moon and beyond.

How do you tell how old an astronomical object is? I mean, the next time the Moon is in the sky, take a look at it. How would you even begin to answer that question?

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I’m not exaggerating when I say that our studies of the Moon have unlocked the mysteries of the universe.

An anonymous reader shared this report from Cosmos magazine about a plan to

Astronomers are planning to launch a tiny spacecraft to the far side of the Moon to listen out for “ancient whispers” in a quest to uncover the secrets of the early universe. The mission will focus...