News About Our Moon
June 16, 2025
Why the moon shimmers with shiny glass beads

St. Louis, MO (SPX) Jun 12, 2025
The Apollo astronauts didn't know what they'd find when they explored the surface of the moon, but they certainly didn't expect to see drifts of tiny, bright orange glass beads glistening among the otherwise monochrome piles of rocks and dust. The beads, each less than 1 mm across, formed some 3.3 to 3.6 billion years ago during volcanic eruptions on the surface of the then-young satellite. "They're some of the most amazing extraterrestrial samples we have," said Ryan Ogliore, an associate profess ... read more
Japanese company aborts Moon mission after assumed crash-landing
Tokyo (AFP) June 6, 2025
Japan's hopes of achieving its first soft touchdown on the Moon by a private company were dashed Friday when the mission was aborted after an assumed crash-landing, the startup said. ... more
ESA supports Moon mission carrying first European rover
Paris (ESA) Jun 04, 2025
RESILIENCE is the spacecraft element of ispace Mission 2 "SMBC x HAKUTO-R Venture Moon", the latest step in the company's lunar exploration programme. It launched aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket fro ... more
High-definition Moon landing videos set to transform lunar exploration
Paris, France (SPX) Jun 03, 2025
)The next time astronauts step onto the Moon, viewers will experience it in stunning high-definition color and at up to 60 frames per second. This marks a significant leap forward from the grainy bl ... more
Sierra Space Wins NASA Contract to Advance Lunar Logistics Solutions
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Jun 03, 2025
Sierra Space, a commercial space company and defense technology leader, announced it has secured a NASA contract under the NextSTEP-2 Appendix R for Lunar Logistics and Mobility Studies. The contrac ... more
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NASA Tests New Ways to Stick the Landing in Challenging Terrain
Washington DC (SPX) Jun 02, 2025
Advancing new hazard detection and precision landing technologies to help future space missions successfully achieve safe and soft landings is a critical area of space research and development, part ... more
Next phase of NASA's Artemis II testing set to begin
Washington DC (UPI) May 29, 2025
The next phase of testing is set to begin for NASA's crewed Artemis program, which aims to return humans to the moon, the administration announced Thursday, and will serve as a foundation for travel to Mars. ... more
Why are some rocks on the moon highly magnetic
Boston MA (SPX) May 26, 2025
Where did the moon's magnetism go? Scientists have puzzled over this question for decades, ever since orbiting spacecraft picked up signs of a high magnetic field in lunar surface rocks. The moon it ... more
China's Queqiao-2 Satellite Ready for Global Lunar Mission Support
Tokyo, Japan (SPX) May 20, 2025
Queqiao-2, China's dedicated relay satellite for lunar landing missions, is now poised to support both domestic and international lunar exploration efforts, according to the Deep Space Exploration L ... more
More int'l space cooperation now that Norway is 55th Artemis Accords partner
Washington DC (UPI) May 15, 2025
Norway became the 55th nation to sign the Artemis Accords during a ceremony in Oslo Thursday, agreeing to a pact designed to promote international cooperation in space exploration. ... more
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Glass Beads Provide Insight into Moon's Mysterious Interior
Sydney, Australia (SPX) May 13, 2025
Researchers from Curtin University, Nanjing University, and The Australian National University have discovered unusual high-magnesium glass beads collected by China's Chang'e-5 mission, revealing po ... more
Oracle-M Completes Successful Hot Fire Test for Cislunar Space Mission
Los Angeles CA (SPX) May 12, 2025
The United States Space Force (USSF) Space Systems Command (SSC) and the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) have achieved a critical milestone in cislunar space situational awareness (SSA) with th ... more
Moon becomes little more out of reach for NASA's VIPER rover
Washington DC (UPI) May 7, 2025
NASA is exploring alternative ways to deliver its VIPER rover to the moon after canceling partnership proposals to land a water-seeking robot on the lunar surface. ... more
ispace Achieves Key Mission 2 Milestone with Successful Lunar Orbit Entry
Tokyo, Japan (SPX) May 07, 2025
ispace, inc. (ispace) (TOKYO: 9348), a global leader in lunar exploration, has announced the successful entry of its RESILIENCE lunar lander into lunar orbit. This critical milestone, known as Succe ... more
NASA Kennedy Breathes Life into Moon Soil Testing
Washington DC (SPX) May 06, 2025
As NASA works to establish a long-term presence on the Moon, researchers have reached a breakthrough by extracting oxygen at a commercial scale from simulated lunar soil at Swamp Works at NASA's Ken ... more
Van Hoeydonck, first artist to exhibit on Moon, dies

Brussels, Belgium (AFP) May 3, 2025
Belgian artist Paul Van Hoeydonck, who made what was for decades the only work of art on the Moon, died on Saturday aged 99, his family said on Facebook. Born on October 8, 1925, Van Hoeydonck was a prolific artist whose works spanned sculpture, painting, drawing, collage and graphic design. He is best known for "Fallen Astronaut", an aluminium sculpture left on the moon in 1971 by the crew of the Apollo 15 spacecraft, in homage to their fallen colleagues. It was the first and, for decades, ... read more
Moon RACER achieves autonomous navigation milestone on lunar terrain vehicle
Los Angeles CA (SPX) May 05, 2025
On a simulated lunar landscape, Intuitive Machines has successfully tested the autonomous driving capabilities of its Moon RACER Lunar Terrain Vehicle (LTV) mock-up, marking a major step forward in ... more

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Lockheed Martin completes Orion spacecraft for crewed Artemis II lunar mission
Los Angeles CA (SPX) May 02, 2025
Lockheed Martin [NYSE: LMT] has finalized assembly and testing of NASA's Orion spacecraft for the Artemis II mission, officially transferring the vehicle to NASA's Exploration Ground Systems (EGS) t ... more
NASA moon instrument to return for subsurface volatile survey
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Apr 30, 2025
NASA will once again send its Mass Spectrometer Observing Lunar Operations (MSOLO) instrument to the Moon, this time aboard a commercial rover under a new Cooperative Research and Development Agreem ... more
NASA tests hybrid rocket motor to improve safe lunar landings
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Apr 28, 2025
NASA's Artemis program will rely on human landing systems developed by SpaceX and Blue Origin to ferry astronauts between lunar orbit and the Moon's surface, paving the way for future crewed mission ... more
Lunar Gateway Module Reaches Final Assembly Phase for Artemis Missions
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Apr 28, 2025
NASA's Gateway program is advancing steadily as preparations continue for deep space exploration alongside commercial and international collaborators. The HALO (Habitation and Logistics Outpost) pri ... more
Innovative methods refine search for lunar ice
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Apr 24, 2025
Scientists continue to push the boundaries of lunar exploration with new strategies to identify and map ice deposits on the Moon. Ice could play a vital role in supporting future human activity on t ... more
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