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Lunar Grounding Challenge

As an astronaut traverses the lunar South Pole, tribocharging from walking on the lunar surface and plasma charging from the ambient plasma generate e...

Source: NASA

Who Owns the Moon? Billionaires and Superpowers Race for Lunar Riches Despite Treaty Banning Ownership
Moon Science 4 days ago
Who Owns the Moon? Billionaires and Superpowers Race for Lunar Riches Despite Treaty Banning Ownership

The US and China are competing to establish bases near the lunar south pole, reviving legal questions over resource ownership, commercial mining and t...

Source: Ibtimes.com.au

Russian Hardware to Give Critical Edge to China’s Lunar Mission
Moon Science 3 weeks ago
Russian Hardware to Give Critical Edge to China’s Lunar Mission

A Russian-made device called LPDE-CE8 will be installed on the Chang’e 8 spacecraft that is expected to depart for the lunar South Pole in 2028.

Source: Sputnikglobe.com

Moon Science 3 weeks ago
Saturn's South Pole Features Newly Formed Atmospheric Decagon

The planet Saturn is arguably the most recognizable planetary object in the entire solar system because of its massive rings. Anytime a child is asked...

Source: Universe Today

AI is going to help find the Moon’s most valuable resource: How NASA and IBM are using AI to search for water ice
Moon Science 4 weeks ago
AI is going to help find the Moon’s most valuable resource: How NASA and IBM are using AI to search for water ice

New artificial intelligence models are helping scientists find vital lunar water. This technology analyzes vast lunar data for future exploration eff...

Source: The Times of India

NASA, IBM Launch AI Foundation Model for Lunar Science
Moon Science 4 weeks ago
NASA, IBM Launch AI Foundation Model for Lunar Science

NASA is bringing artificial intelligence to the study of the Moon, helping researchers transform how they analyze the Moon’s surface. In an ongoing co...

Source: NASA

NASA Scientists Discover Giant 10-Sided Pattern on Saturn’s South Pole
Moon Science 1 month ago
NASA Scientists Discover Giant 10-Sided Pattern on Saturn’s South Pole

NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has detected a massive, evolving 10-sided atmospheric wave circling Saturn’s south pole, according to a study published ...

Source: Naturalnews.com

Moon Science 1 month ago
Hubble spots mysterious 10-sided pattern forming around Saturn’s south pole

The newly identified atmospheric wave appears to be strengthening, giving scientists a rare chance to watch an unusual feature develop on Saturn. NASA...

Source: Freerepublic.com

Moon Science 1 month ago
NASA Calls for Proposals to Accelerate Lunar Surface Technologies 

NASA is seeking proposals to advance the technology and infrastructure needed to explore the Moon and establish a Moon Base in the lunar South Pole re...

Source: NASA

Moon Science 1 month ago
APOD: 2026 September 8 – Hubble: Decagon Around Saturn’s South Pole

APOD Science APOD APOD: 2026 September 8 –… Today’s APOD Archive Submissions Index Search Calendar RSS Education About Discuss   APOD Astronomy Pictur...

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Astronomers using Hubble found a new roughly 104,000-mile-wide ten-sided storm forming at Saturn’s south pole, a geometric twin to the famous hexagon that has long circled the north
Moon Science 1 month ago
Astronomers using Hubble found a new roughly 104,000-mile-wide ten-sided storm forming at Saturn’s south pole, a geometric twin to the famous hexagon that has long circled the north

Saturn's symmetry breaks: a ten-sided storm now mirrors the planet's legendary hexagon, suggesting these geometric puzzles obey deeper physi...

Source: Space Daily

Moon Science 1 month ago
Snapping the Sun's Grand Magnetic Border at 0.3 AU

Out in the solar system, there is a giant rippling curtain of charged particles that is actually the largest structure in our solar system. Known as t...

Source: Universe Today

Saturn south pole decagon: NASA Hubble detects mysterious 10-sided pattern forming around planet
Moon Science 1 month ago
Saturn south pole decagon: NASA Hubble detects mysterious 10-sided pattern forming around planet

NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has revealed a giant 10-sided atmospheric wave developing around Saturn’s south pole. Unlike the planet’s long-lived nor...

Source: The Times of India

NASA scientists discover a giant 10-sided pattern on Saturn
Moon Science 1 month ago
NASA scientists discover a giant 10-sided pattern on Saturn

A huge 10-sided atmospheric pattern has appeared around Saturn’s south pole, giving the planet a surprising counterpart to its famous northern hexagon...

Source: Science Daily

Every patch of human skin the size of a pencil eraser carries roughly a million bacteria, and NASA now warns those microbes vent from spacesuits and could survive in the shaded craters near the Moon’s South Pole for days after the astronauts leave
Moon Science 1 month ago
Every patch of human skin the size of a pencil eraser carries roughly a million bacteria, and NASA now warns those microbes vent from spacesuits and could survive in the shaded craters near the Moon’s South Pole for days after the astronauts leave

A patch of human skin the size of a pencil eraser carries roughly a million bacteria — and NASA planetary protection researchers now warn those microb...

Source: Theartfulage.com

Moon Science 1 month ago
NASA’s Hubble Tracks New Decagon Encircling Saturn’s South Pole

NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope observes a giant, evolving, 10-sided atmospheric wave encircling Saturn’s south pole.

Source: NASA

In 2013, balloons were launched by NASA near the North and South poles to study X-rays in Earth’s atmosphere
Moon Science 1 month ago
In 2013, balloons were launched by NASA near the North and South poles to study X-rays in Earth’s atmosphere

In 2013, balloons were launched by NASA near the North and South poles to study X-rays in Earth’s atmosphere as part of the Balloon Array for Radiatio...

Source: The Times of India

Moon Science 1 month ago
China scraps ambitious launch of Chang’e-7 lunar mission due to need for ‘absolute success’ - Yahoo

China scraps ambitious launch of Chang’e-7 lunar mission due to need for ‘absolute success’Yahoo Due to need for "absolute success," China d...

Source: Slashdot.org

China delays Chang’e-7 launch: Why the Moon mission was halted just hours before liftoff
Moon Science 1 month ago
China delays Chang’e-7 launch: Why the Moon mission was halted just hours before liftoff

China's Chang'e-7 lunar mission launch was abruptly postponed just before liftoff. Officials cited prudence, reliability, and safety as rea...

Source: The Times of India

China built Chang’e‑7 to place a rover and hopping probe near the Moon’s south pole, probably close to Shackleton Crater, where the hopper would venture from sunlight into a permanently shadowed cold trap and search for ice that may have survived since lo
Moon Science 1 month ago
China built Chang’e‑7 to place a rover and hopping probe near the Moon’s south pole, probably close to Shackleton Crater, where the hopper would venture from sunlight into a permanently shadowed cold trap and search for ice that may have survived since lo

Chang’e‑7’s delayed south-pole mission combines orbital mapping with a mini-flying probe designed to sample permanent shadow near Shackleton and measu...

Source: Space Daily