Moon

South Korea says 2022 moonshot on track, will test interplanetary internet and search for water

Orbiter nearly built ahead of ride with SpaceX in August '22. But first, a home-grown rocket launch in a month or so

Science31 Aug 2021 | 3

Boots on Moon in 2024? NASA OIG says you better moonwalk away from that date, because suits ain't ready

Don't rocket the boat, says agency - you'll hear from us soon

Science10 Aug 2021 | 36

Hubble in another first: Water vapor spotted in atmosphere of Jupiter’s Ganymede

We speak to the scientists involved

Science27 Jul 2021 | 11

Bezos offers to knock $2bn off his bill to NASA to stay in the running for Moon contract

It's not a bribe when it's a payment waiver

Science26 Jul 2021 | 30

NASA to return to the Moon by 2024. One problem with that, says watchdog: All of it

Three years to go and space agency is way behind schedule

Science28 May 2021 | 64

ESA signs off on contracts for lunar data relay and navigation

Surrey Satellite and Airbus to ponder a fleet of Moonlight satellites

Science21 May 2021 | 16

Elon Musk's SpaceX bags $3bn NASA contract to, fingers crossed, land first woman on the Moon

And the 13th guy

Science16 Apr 2021 | 54

Russia, China say anyone will be able to use their south pole Moon base for 'peaceful' science and exploration

Researchers to bask in 100+ days of continuous sunlight

Science16 Mar 2021 | 22

Japanese billionaire invites y'all to apply for an all-expenses-paid Moon trip in a SpaceX Starship – like the one that blew up today

Video Eight plucky applicants will be picked for journey of a lifetime

Science04 Mar 2021 | 28

ESA mulls sending waves of robot explorers into dark depths of lunar lava tubes

Lidar-equipped spherical probes or solar panel-powered cranes, perhaps?

Science26 Feb 2021 | 18

China's Chang'e 5 probe lands Moon rocks in Inner Mongolia

A small steppe for probe, giant leaps await science ... and propaganda

Science17 Dec 2020 | 37

Bezos to the Moon: Blue Origin fires up BE-7 engine to be used in human lunar mission

In Brief Also: Orion challenges and a quarter century since SOHO's launch

Science07 Dec 2020 | 9

A tale of two nations: See China blast off from the Moon as drone shows America's Arecibo telescope falling apart

Videos Everyone has an off day, er, year, er, make that four years...

Science04 Dec 2020 | 56

Robot drills hole on Moon, employs robot arm to clean up mess to bring home

We’re talking about China’s Chang’e 5 lunar sample return mission, which has accomplished one of its main jobs

Science03 Dec 2020 | 30

China's Chang'e-5 lands on the Moon to scratch surface

Mission aims to bring home 2kg of stones and soil from up to 2m down

Science01 Dec 2020 | 46

Rock and roll: China's probe orbits the Moon while Japan brings home bits of asteroid

Chang'e-5 set for a lunar touchdown, Japan aims for Australia

Science30 Nov 2020 | 3

China prepares for launch of Chang'e 5 mission to Moon, which would make it third nation to return lunar sample

If all goes as planned

Science23 Nov 2020 | 14

Behold, the Ultimately Large Telescope: A revived proposal for a 100-metre liquid-mirror star scanner on the Moon

'We are putting this idea out to the scientific community,' lead scientist tells El Reg

Science18 Nov 2020 | 63

Shock news: NASA lunar ambitions might be a bit too... ambitious

'We believe the Agency will be hard-pressed to land astronauts on the Moon by the end of 2024'

Science13 Nov 2020 | 35

Did Arthur C. Clarke call it right? Water spotted in Moon's sunlit Clavius crater by NASA telescope

Fly me to the Moon, let me swim among the stars

Science26 Oct 2020 | 67

Everybody's going to the Moon (and Mars): The Reg chats to ESA about 10-year plans and sending Tim back to space

Agency's 'nauts to ride in US commercial crew capsules 'going forward'

Science20 Oct 2020 | 14

NASA hires Nokia to build first 4G network on the Moon as part of plan to boldly go back to lunar surface by 2024

And 5G hype goes out of this world

Networks19 Oct 2020 | 56

Desperately seeking regolith: NASA seeks proposals for collecting Moon dirt

Hand-over to happen on the lunar surface. Legally speaking

Science10 Sep 2020 | 25

Everything's falling apart. The Moon is slowly rusting up – and it's probably Earth's fault

We're not talking about the programming language, either

Science03 Sep 2020 | 45

Crack this mystery: Something rotated the ice shell around Jupiter's Europa millions of years ago, fracturing it

You broke it, you pay for it

Science23 Aug 2020 | 23

Tired: Cheap space launch outfits. Wired: Software-and-data-as-a-service for cheap space launch outfits

Japan’s iSpace has put itself in the second column but also plans lunar landers of its own

Science21 Aug 2020 | 6

We've heard of littering but this is ridiculous: Asteroid dumps up to 50 quadrillion kg of space dirt on Earth, Moon

Sadly, missing all of us by 800 million years

Science22 Jul 2020 | 22

51 years after humans first set foot on the Moon, a deepfaked Nixon mourns how Armstrong and Aldrin never made it home

I am not a .... {NASA nightmare brought to life by AI}

AI + ML20 Jul 2020 | 88

The Moon certainly ain't made of cheese but it may be made of more metal than previously thought, sensor shows

There's iron in them hills, maybe

Science02 Jul 2020 | 25

NASA scientists mull sending a spacecraft on a 13-year mission to visit Neptune's 'bizarre' moon, Triton

Triton may be a satellite now, but it was probably once a dwarf planet in its past

Science17 Jun 2020 | 30

Saturn's largest satellite, Titan, is drifting away from its planet 100 times faster than previously thought

Atmospheric moon taking a wander

Science09 Jun 2020 | 12

NASA launches guide to Lunar etiquette now that private operators will share the Moon with governments

Old treaties don't mention space mining and a new one could take forever the sign off. Enter the new 'Artemis Accords'

Science18 May 2020 | 34

Quick Q: Er, why is the Moon emitting carbon? And does this mean it wasn't formed from Theia hitting Earth?

Decades-old theory may require a rethink thanks to Japanese probe

Science07 May 2020 | 53

If you want to take social distancing to the next level, and go to the Moon, take this: A complete lunar geology map

Video First-of-its-kind blueprint of materials and structures shared online

Science23 Apr 2020 | 11

Apollo 13 set off into space 50 years ago today. An ignored change order ensured it did not make it to the Moon...

Part one A liquid-oxygen tank, 65 volts across a 28-volt thermostat, and a two-inch tumble all led to this 'successful failure'

Science11 Apr 2020 | 56

Are you extracting the urine, ESA? Why, yes it is, from Moon dwellers to build homes out of lunar regolith. Possibly

Just use a wee bit of your imagination

Science31 Mar 2020 | 47

Over the Moon? Not quite: NASA boss has a good whinge about 'counterproductive' Authorization Bill

It's all Boeing to go wrong unless everyone gets to come to the party

Science28 Jan 2020 | 31

Fly me to the M(O2)n: Euro scientists extract oxygen from 'lunar dust' by cooking it with molten salt electrolysis

'Being able to acquire oxygen would obviously be hugely useful for future settlers'

Science21 Jan 2020 | 90

50 years on: Apollo 12 failed at selfies but succeeded at dismantling a probe

Part 2 Mind where you're pointing that thing, Al

Science19 Nov 2019 | 13

So, what's fashion going to look like on the Moon in 2024? NASA's ready to show you the goods

Hope you look good in orange

Science16 Oct 2019 | 65

Tough luck, Jupiter, you've lost your crown for now: Boffins show Saturn has more moons

All hail the new moon king

Science08 Oct 2019 | 42

So we're going back to the Moon: NASA triggers countdown by firing up spacecraft production

See? That Trump fellow's not so bad after all

Science24 Sep 2019 | 61

DNA-in-space archive could spark 'Upload Me to the Moon' croon boom soon

Updated The amber DNA in Jurassic Park? That's you, that is

Science12 Sep 2019 | 8

Will someone plz dump our shizz on the Moon, NASA begs as one of the space biz vendors drops out

OrbitBeyond begone: Getting to the Moon is hard

Science31 Jul 2019 | 27

The Register taps a foot with boffins under the Lovell Telescope at Bluedot Festival

Ad Astra Tabernamque... but no, we can't dance

Science26 Jul 2019 | 16

50 years ago today Apollo 11 slipped the surly bonds of Earth to put peeps on the Moon

Mind that pocket, Neil... oops

Science16 Jul 2019 | 49

It's 50 years to the day since Apollo 10 blasted off: America's lunar landing 'dress rehearsal'

Part One Charlie Brown and Snoopy go to the Moon

Science18 May 2019 | 190

Israeli Moon probe crashes at the last minute but SpaceX scores with Falcon Heavy launch

One step forward, one step back in space news

Science12 Apr 2019 | 80

VP Mike Pence: I want Americans back on the Moon by 2024 (or before the Chinese get there)

'We're also racing against our worst enemy' says President Trump's straight man – but who could that be?

Science27 Mar 2019 | 136

Crew Dragon returns to dry land as NASA promises new space station for the Moon

Upgrades postponed for NASA's big rocket budget request in this week's round-up

Science12 Mar 2019 | 55

Lunar lander's brief jaunt will place Israel as fourth country to make soft landing on Moon

If it works. Comms sat also along for ride, but there are loads already so...

Science22 Feb 2019 | 16

NASA boffins show Moon water supply could – er, this can't be right? – come from the Sun

All rocks can produce water if irradiated in the right way

Science21 Feb 2019 | 21

Q. China just landed on its far side, the US woz there 50 years ago – now Europe wants to mine it? A. It's the Moon

Pic Plus: Potential meteoroid snapped crashing into surface during total lunar eclipse

Science23 Jan 2019 | 45

RIP 2019-2019: The first plant to grow on the Moon? Yeah, it's dead already, Chinese admit

The poor cotton seedling froze to death as temperatures plunged during the lunar night

Science16 Jan 2019 | 142

China's really cotton'd on to this whole Moon exploration thing: First seed sprouts in lunar lander biosphere

Pic Living in a box, living in a faraway box, I'm living in a box

Science16 Jan 2019 | 56

It's the weekend. We're out of puns for now. Just have a gander at China's Moon lander and robo-sidekick snaps, videos

Pics and vid Not much fun back in the West for SpaceX, tho: Staff decimated

Science12 Jan 2019 | 41