Moon Monday #218: A molten Moon, a date for the SPA, sunset for Blue Ghost as well as inclusive Artemis language, and more There’s a lot in this Moon Monday edition to unpack. Grab yourself a coffee ...

Many people think that the Moon is just a gray ball of rock in our sky. Surprisingly, many scientists seem to share this notion. I once had a physicist tell me the Moon is scientifically boring. None ...

For most of the 20th century, scientists thought the Moon’s surface was bone-dry. The 382 kilograms of rock and soil samples brought by the Apollo missions to Earth attested to this. When they did ...

India has formally approved the joint ISRO-JAXA Chandrayaan 5 (LUPEX) mission to study water ice on the Moon’s south pole. The mission and its approval are notable in many ways as we’ll see below.

Me, speaking at the European Space Agency, ESTEC in Netherlands.

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 ...

As we wrap up an insanely happening 12 months in Moon exploration worldwide, I present to you a huge, curated linked list of lunar technology and science developments across 2024, organized by country ...

When Mangalyaan entered orbit around Mars, India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi had boasted that at ~$70 million, the mission was cheaper than the Hollywood film Gravity, and even an auto rickshaw ...

Plus: Contextualizing the failure of Intuitive Machines’ second Moon mission and that of Lunar Trailblazer as grave losses for NASA. In the half a lunar day since its local morning landing, Firefly ...

Today (June 14), Srinivasa Hegde, Mission Director of India’s first lunar orbiter Chandrayaan 1, passed away. Among its many unique feats, Chandrayaan 1 discovered water on the Moon, which encouraged ...

NASA’s boldest robotic Moon mission yet will launch in 2024 to study water ice in one of the harshest planetary environments in the solar system. Illustration of the VIPER rover exploring the Moon’s ...

Hi, I’m Jatan Mehta, a globally published independent writer on a lifelong mission to promote the exploration of our Moon and space. All of my work—including my flagship Moon Monday blog+newsletter—is ...