Moon

Crippled Peregrine lunar lander set for fiery return to Earth in matter of days

Doing science and still alive ... but not for long

Science15 Jan 2024 | 12

NASA's Artemis Moon missions take a rain check until 2025 and beyond

No human will set foot on regolith for 2-plus years now

Science10 Jan 2024 | 39

Private lunar lander Peregrine mission's now measured in hours, not days

UK trumpets British tech aboard doomed spacecraft

Science09 Jan 2024 | 15

America's first private lunar lander suffers 'critical' fuel leak en route to Moon

Updated Astrobotic's Peregrine packed with NASA science gear and other payloads may be a bust

Science08 Jan 2024 | 38

NASA science bound for Moon after successful Vulcan Centaur launch

Your turn, Starship

Science08 Jan 2024 | 13

Another day, another delay to first Vulcan Centaur launch

Mission to the Moon likely to slip to 2024 following dress rehearsal issues

Science11 Dec 2023 | 6

America's ambitious Artemis III likely to miss 2025 Moon landing date, auditors sigh

Updated 'SpaceX has made limited progress maturing the technologies needed'

Science30 Nov 2023 | 54

Double Moon crater riddle solved? Spent Chinese rocket booster carrying mystery payload crash landed

We come in peace, or rather, pieces

Science17 Nov 2023 | 13

NASA geeks code new tricks to model rocket plumes and avoid a lunar dust-up

Supersonic hot gas not that awesome for rocky, dusty surface

HPC16 Nov 2023 | 6

RIP: Frank Borman, NASA commander of first Moon mission

Obit Former Air Force officer - also involved in first crewed rendezvous in space - dies aged 95

Science13 Nov 2023 | 7

NASA gasping for ideas to extract oxygen from Moon dirt

Wants 'tens of metric tons of O2 production per year' on the cheap

Science07 Nov 2023 | 11

From Apollo to Space Shuttle, Thomas K Mattingly's stellar journey ends at 87

Obit Dodged Apollo 13 disaster because of rubella, but helped to rescue the crew

Science06 Nov 2023 | 9

India's lunar landing made a mess on the Moon

'Ejecta halo' detected by orbiter reminds that life on Luna will be dirty, gritty, and sneezy

Science03 Nov 2023 | 45

Alien rock remains found not on but deep inside the Earth

Scientists offer explanation for origin of two anomalous structures nestled within our world

Science02 Nov 2023 | 21

Blue Origin pulls sheets off cargo lunar lander prototype

NASA: Nice rocket, but what about the dust?

Science30 Oct 2023 | 20

Moonstruck Modi wants lunar Indian crew by 2040

A space station, Venus, and Mars also on the cards but the budget is TBD

Science18 Oct 2023 | 5

Engineers pave the way for building lunar roads with Moon dust

Just melt it with lasers, say researchers in Germany

Science12 Oct 2023 | 34

Scientists trace tiny moonquakes to Apollo 17 lander – left over from 1972

Humans just can't leave anything alone, huh

Science13 Sep 2023 | 105

South Korea's Moon orbiter snaps India's lander

As Japan's space agency preps a rover to land on Martian moon Phobos

Science13 Sep 2023 | 7

NASA rockets draining its pockets as officials whisper: 'We can't afford this'

Watchdog finds space agency has no plans to measure SLS production costs

Science08 Sep 2023 | 84

Japan's 'Moon sniper' and its two ejectable landers make it into space

Now for the hard part: testing its ability to pick a safe landing spot

Science07 Sep 2023 | 4

India's Chandrayaan-3 Moon mission hibernates to see out a long lunar night

Spacecraft scheduled to snooze until September 22 when it's hoped machines return to duty

Science06 Sep 2023 | 9

India set to launch Sun-spotting satellite on Saturday

Meanwhile its Moon rover dodges a crater and spots sulphur

Science30 Aug 2023 | 6

India's Moon mission continues to triumph, Japan's waits for better weather

JAXA's SLIM scheduled to arrive after Chandrayaan-3 says goodnight

Science25 Aug 2023 | 7

India lands Chandrayaan-3 spacecraft on Moon, is the first to lunar south pole

Video with update Way to go, ISRO. Congrats on getting your rover rolling, too

Science23 Aug 2023 | 51

NASA still serious about astronauts living it up on Moon space station in 2028

Assuming the orbital hotel is even built by then

Science22 Aug 2023 | 36

Moscow makes a mess on the Moon as Luna 25 probe misses orbit, lands with a thud

First lunar attempt since Soviet era ends in катастрофа

Science21 Aug 2023 | 122

DARPA wants interoperability standard for Moon living

Less lunacy? LunA-10 is seeking designs for 'optimized and integrated lunar infrastructure'

Science16 Aug 2023 | 5

If you're Russian to the Moon, expect traffic: Moscow's Putin a lander into orbit

India's close to landing one, too, and Japan is counting down to a launch

Science14 Aug 2023 | 25

We need to be first on the Moon, uh, again, says NASA

'I don't want China to get to the south pole with humans and then say: this is ours, stay out'

Science09 Aug 2023 | 148

NASA's ice-hunting cubesat lunar mission is over, thanks to a stuck valve

Plus: India's Chandrayaan-3 spacecraft successfully enters orbit around Moon, and beams photos back

Science08 Aug 2023 | 7

Satnav for the Moon could benefit from Fibonacci’s expertise

Middle Ages maths to the rescue

Science31 Jul 2023 | 18

NASA awards $150 million to prototype tech for humans on the Moon, and above it

Inflatable heat shields, robot cable layers, and a furnace to burn lunar dust for minerals and oxygen

Science26 Jul 2023 | 19

India takes second punt at soft lunar landing with launch of Chandrayaan-3 mission

We'll see in 42 days whether economical $74.5M rover sticks

Science14 Jul 2023 | 31

Japan schedules August launch for 'Moon Sniper' lander

Nifty XRISM plasma-spotting scope to ride the same Mitsubishi

Science12 Jul 2023 | 1

India's space agency set to launch lunar lander, rover

On a shoestring budget, Chandrayaan-3 aims to observe Luna, Earth, even exoplanets

Science07 Jul 2023 | 15

Ariane 5 to take final flight, leaving Europe without its own heavy-lift rocket

Final update (literally) Launch will leave continent dependent on the US for space missions

Science04 Jul 2023 | 70

Scientists think they may have cracked life support for Martian occupation

Outdated ISS system will need an upgrade if we're to go further into space

The Reg in Space07 Jun 2023 | 82

NASA freezes ice-hunting cubesat Moon mission for good after thruster fail

Lunar Flashlight's innovative hardware worked ... other than its engines. Let's call it a draw

Science15 May 2023 | 6

First attempt by Japan's ispace biz to land on Moon ends in awkward silence

Comms lost to Hakuto-R after apparent crash landing

Science25 Apr 2023 | 18

China joins US and Europe in considering 3D-printed Moon bases

Chang'e 8 missions will check whether regolith harbors appropriate materials

Science25 Apr 2023 | 2

Hyundai to develop a Moon rover (to launch, not because the roads are so bad down here)

Japan's Toyota, Honda, and Nissan, are already pondering what it takes to make a MoonMobile

Science21 Apr 2023 | 11

Launching soon: ESA's Juice to probe Jupiter's moons for signs of possible life

Feature We speak to professor deeply involved in multi-year, billion-plus-euro mission

Science13 Apr 2023 | 31

SpaceX calendar marked with big red circle for 'first Starship launch' this month

Waits for pen-pushers to sign off debut orbital mission

Science11 Apr 2023 | 42

NASA names astronauts picked for next Artemis Moon test flight

First for women, people of color, Canucks

Science03 Apr 2023 | 46

Lockheed Martin launches biz to build lunar satellite network

Crescent Space will be 'well positioned' to get a piece of NASA's cash pie, no contract yet

Networks29 Mar 2023 | 1

Moon's glass beads contain enough water to support a mission

Thought Icelandic glacier water was rare? How about chugging down some Moon water

Science28 Mar 2023 | 33

Japanese outfit's private Moon mission enters Lunar orbit

Now all it has to do is land

Science23 Mar 2023 | 16

Reg fashion: Here's what the well-dressed astronaut will wear on the Moon in 2025

Charcoal gray with orange highlights – so chic, and so deliberately fake

Science16 Mar 2023 | 63

Firefly gets nod from NASA to deliver Lunar Pathfinder to the Moon

LuSEE in the sky with ... data

Science15 Mar 2023 | 14

The Moon or bust, says NASA, after successful SLS/Orion test flight

Heat shield sustained more damage than expected, but this shouldn't discourage astronauts

Science09 Mar 2023 | 68

Wannabe space 'superpower' UK tosses £1.6M at eight research projects

Very world-beating funding

Science08 Mar 2023 | 65

Lonestar bags $5m in seed funding for lunar datacenter project

That's one small step for upstart, with many, many more to go

On-Prem07 Mar 2023 | 6

If we plan to live on the Moon, it's going to need a time zone

For one thing, lunar satnav isn't gonna work with Earth's systems

Science01 Mar 2023 | 135

Smile! South Korea's moon orbiter sends back first snaps of Earth

Danuri probe is ready to spend its planned year testing space internet, spotting radiation and/or water

Science14 Feb 2023 | 4

Water-hunting NASA cubesat won't reach Moon after total thruster fail

ASCENT propulsion system just didn't work

Science10 Feb 2023 | 21