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APOD: 2026 November 1 – Colors of the Moon
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Turkey aims for first Moon-orbiting mission in 2027
This is the first of a pair of Turkish flights to the Moon. The first will be an orbiter with several scientific instruments and the second will be a ...
November’s Night Sky Notes: Light-Day Away
Twin Travelers In 1977, NASA launched twin spacecraft Voyager 1 and 2, taking advantage of a once-every-175-year planetary alignment of the four large...
Send Your Name to Titan Aboard NASA’s Dragonfly Mission
You may never soar under the clouds or over the organic sands of Saturn’s moon Titan, but your name can. NASA is inviting the public to send their n...
Exploring the Moon
The Moon being so visible has always inspired explorers, scientists and dreamers. Today, it is a destination for discovery, innovation, international ...
NASA Invites Media to Moon Landing Simulation Experience in California
Members of the media are invited to tour a new lunar landing simulator at NASA’s Ames Research Center in California's Silicon Valley on Thursday, Oc...
NASA updates lander plans for Moon landings, finally solves long-festering Orion issue
"We have the mandate, we have the resources, and the support from our stakeholders."
NASA is Full Steam Ahead on Artemis III, IV and V
NASA officials projected confidence today in their plans to launch the Artemis III earth-orbital test flight in mid-2027 and land American astronauts ...
NASA, Partners Accelerate Lander Development for 2028 Moon Missions
As NASA returns humans to the lunar surface and establishes a long-term presence on our closest celestial neighbor, the agency and commercial human la...
NASA’s Artemis III Mission to Test Future Moon Lander Operations
Before astronauts return to the lunar surface, NASA will first conduct one of the most ambitious and complex test missions in the agency’s history.�...
NASA Safety Panel Concerned About Artemis IV, Future Access to LEO
NASA’s Aerospace Safety Advisory Panel will soon open a formal recommendation that NASA re-examine plans for the Artemis IV mission. Currently tha...
Latest estimate for Starship launches required to support a Moon landing? 22.
"We need to keep our eyes on numerous required fuelings for the lander."
NASA Invites Media to 2026 von Braun Space Exploration Symposium
Members of the media are invited to join NASA at the 2026 von Braun Space Exploration Symposium from Monday, Oct. 26, to Wednesday, Oct. 28, at the Un...
Moon’s South Pole Not the Only Compelling Location for Human Exploration
A new report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine identifies four locations on the Moon separate from the South Pole whe...
MMX Lifts Off on Mission to Explore Moons of Mars
The five-year mission will return samples from Mars’ moon Phobos and answer long-standing questions about the moon’s origin.
Help a lost lunar rover find its way in new ESA competition
A small rover is alone on the Moon, with no signal and no idea of its position. All it has is a panoramic camera and an aerial map of the Moon’s sur...
Moon crane to take a load off lunar landers
From the ESA Blogs.
Astronauts on the Moon could shelter from radiation, micrometeoroids and extreme temperatures inside a lava tube, and NASA is sending a suite called GIMLI to scan beneath the Marius Hills Pit to see whether the pit opens into one
Underground caverns could offer lunar explorers their first true shelter, if a buried tunnel system actually exists beneath the volcanic landscape whe...
NASA Provides Progress Update on Moon Base Rovers
As NASA works to build the Moon Base, crewed and robotic lunar rovers will play a crucial role during early development through technology demonstrati...
MMX lifts off to Mars’s moon Phobos
From the ESA Blogs.