Apollo lunar samples show how space weathering alters the Moon’s surface over time, affecting ultraviolet light reflection and interpretation of Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter data.

He explained that securing deep-space communications technology through the lunar communication orbiter will serve as groundwork for the goal of sending an unmanned lunar lander in 2032. A lunar ...

On Dec. 13, 2012, a Chinese spacecraft flew by the asteroid Toutatis. [‘On This Day in Space’ Video Series on Space.com] ...

SEOUL, 13th December, 2025 (WAM) -- South Korea aims to launch a lunar communication orbiter in 2029 and a lunar lander in 2032 as part of its long-term space exploration road map, the head of the ...

Man's historic first look into the crater Copernicus. The image shows a 17-mile wide section, with 1,000-foot mountains rising from crater floor. Analysts have found evidence of erosion, quakes and ...

Korea aims to launch a lunar communication orbiter in 2029 and a lunar lander in 2032 as part of its long-term space ...

President Lee Jae-myung has publicly criticized the location of the Korea AeroSpace Administration (KASA) in Sacheon, ...

Not just for Chandrayaan-4, but the Department of Space declared project- and year-wise details of funds sanctioned, released ...

This tenuous mix of electrons and ions forms the lunar ionosphere, a region so thin that earlier missions could only study it ...

By analyzing just a few grains of returned samples from the Apollo missions, researchers gained important insights into the ...

Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) scientists are collaborating with researchers at UT San Antonio to study how space ...