Moon

Moon’s water can’t sustain a large city beyond a century, study finds

Dreams of sprawling cities on the Moon face a fundamental constraint: there simply isn't enough water. A study published this week in Frontiers in Space Technologies by researchers at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics concludes that even the most generous…

Deep partial lunar eclipse covers 96% of the Moon

A deep partial lunar eclipse unfolded across the night sky on Thursday, August 27, into the early hours of Friday, August 28, with Earth's shadow covering approximately 96% of the Moon's surface at its peak. The event, the last eclipse…

South Korea’s Danuri orbiter captures first images of SpaceX rocket’s moon crash site

South Korea's Danuri lunar orbiter has captured the first images of a fresh crater on the moon, created when a defunct SpaceX Falcon 9 upper stage slammed into the lunar surface on August 5. The Korea Aerospace Administration released the…

Moon’s far side rocks challenge long-held asteroid bombardment theory

Ancient samples from the Moon's far side are reshaping scientists' understanding of how asteroid impacts shaped the early Solar System, with new research suggesting bombardment declined gradually over billions of years rather than occurring as a single catastrophic burst.

Bezos says colonizing the Moon is key to saving Earth

Jeff Bezos took the stage at VivaTech in Paris on Wednesday to argue that colonizing the Moon is not a detour from saving Earth but the only way to accomplish it, framing Blue Origin's lunar ambitions as both environmentally necessary…