Unlike traditional missions, these CLPS missions are built, operated and managed by their companies, with lower oversight from NASA. The agency primarily dictates preferences for the landing sites, ...

Where did our Moon come from? The origin of our cosmic neighbor is a fundamental question in planetary science. From Galileo’s first telescopic observations of the Moon to humans walking on its ...

I’m thrilled to welcome Astrolab as a continuing yearly sponsor of my Moon Monday blog+newsletter! California-based Venturi Astrolab Inc. (Astrolab) is developing the large multi-purpose rovers of ...

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 ...

A space mission is an immensely complex undertaking. Hundreds to thousands of experts from several distinct fields come together to build the thousands of parts and functions of a spacecraft. To ...

A complicated question to answer for a controversial flight intended to advance India’s grand ambition of indigenously sending humans to space. Note: Shukla has become the first Indian national to ...

A panorama from China’s 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 Shadows of Firefly’s Blue Ghost Moon lander ...

The Artemis II SLS rocket core stage being transported towards NASA’s Pegasus ferry barge near the agency’s Michoud Assembly Facility. Image: NASA / Eric Bordelon / Michael DeMocker A NASA chart from ...

Independent Space Writer: Moon Monday and Indian Space Progress 🌙 Journalist with articles published globally Science Communications Lead for the Open Lunar Foundation Quoted and cited in Books, on ...

Unlike the millions of years it takes for most mountains on Earth to form, lunar mountains crop out near-instantly, geologically speaking. Earth’s mountains primarily form when two colliding plates of ...

The Sun rises in the east and sets in the west, except if you are on Venus. That’s because it rotates on its axis in the opposite direction from other planets, and nobody knows why. This is just one ...

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, ...