Unlike sinuous (curved) rilles which are volcanic in nature, linear (straight) rilles like Rima Ariadaeus are formed differently. The linear rille of Rima Ariadaeus is thought to have been formed when ...

Some of you have been wondering and asking why I haven’t covered potential Artemis changes in the new US administration on my Moon Monday blog+newsletter. So here’s the thing. In the nearly three ...

A panorama from the Chang’e 6 lander on the Moon’s farside, showing one of its legs and the scoop sampling arm near its surface digs. Image: CNSA / CLEP Chinese researchers have published a whole ...

Thank you for having signed up for my no-award winning Moon Monday blog+newsletter! Its motivation was to exist because nothing like it did to capture the world’s march to the Moon. 🌝 If you’re one ...

Updates on CLPS, ispace, Artemis, Chandrayaan 4, and more. Read to the end for a fact check on an op-ed. How long do you think this hold is going to be? We don't have a lot of gas to play with," one ...

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched Moon landers from Firefly and ispace respectively on January 15. Images: SpaceX / NASA / Frank Michaux With a fleet of NASA-supported robotic Moon landers part of the ...

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Last week I wrote how the annual report of NSIL, an Indian government arm tasked with commercializing ISRO’s space technologies, notes that ISRO provided commercial ground tracking support for a lunar ...

How will ISRO go from Chandrayaan 3 to an Indian on the Moon? Clarifying and laying down India’s plans for increasingly complex robotic lunar missions, where human spaceflight comes in, and what ...

To piece together this story, I spoke to experts from JAXA, NASA, and ISRO. When Japan’s solar-powered SLIM lander made a lopsided-but-successful touchdown on the Moon on January 19, most news ...