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NASA Details Its Plan to Build a Lunar Base at the Moon’s South Pole
The project’s first mission could arrive as soon as this year, with a little help from Blue Origin.
Source: Wired
NASA Provides Update on Moon Base Rovers, Landers, Missions
During a Moon Base event Tuesday at NASA’s Headquarters in Washington, the agency announced new contracts for lunar rovers for crew to drive and uncre...
Source: NASA
China's new lunar mission to conduct environment and resource surveys of Moon’s south pole
China's Chang'e-7 mission will survey the Moon's south pole for water ice and future research base potential.
Source: BusinessLine
China's new lunar mission will conduct environment and resource surveys of Moon's south pole
China's Chang'e-7 mission is set to explore the Moon's south pole later this year. The robotic mission will search for water ice and as...
Source: The Times of India
The Soviet Lunokhod 1 rover went silent on the Moon in 1971, then scientists found its lost reflector in 2010 and got a signal bright enough to reopen a forgotten corner of lunar science
The Soviet Lunokhod 1 rover went silent in 1971 and its retroreflector was considered a lost target for nearly four decades. When laser ranging teams ...
Source: Space Daily
Chandrayaan-3 receives 2026 AIAA Goddard Astronautics Award
India's Chandrayaan-3 mission has earned the prestigious 2026 Goddard Astronautics Award from the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronaut...
Source: The Times of India
India's Chandrayaan-3 mission gets Goddard Astronautics Award from AIAA
The Indian Space Research Organisation has received the prestigious 2026 Goddard Astronautics Award from the American Institute of Aeronautics and Ast...
Source: The Times of India
NASA’s Psyche Mission Sees Mars’ South Pole After Flyby
Description This is Psyche’s first view of a nearly “full Mars” seen shortly after the spacecraft’s closest approach to the planet on May 15, 2026. Th...
Source: NASA
Psyche’s High-Resolution View of Mars’ South Pole
Description This is the highest-resolution view of the water ice-rich south polar cap of Mars captured by NASA’s Psyche mission after it made its clos...
Source: NASA
The same precision sensor that kept Webb locked on galaxies 13 billion light-years away has been quietly miniaturized — and it’s about to solve the navigation problem nobody wanted to discuss on the way to the Moon
Lunar missions are running into a navigation wall. Landers heading for the south pole this decade cannot rely on GPS, the Moon has no positioning cons...
Source: Space Daily
Chang'e 7 Preps for South Pole Mission as China Charts Expanding Lunar Program
Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Apr 26, 2026 China's Chang'e 7 spacecraft is undergoing final launch preparations at the Wenchang Space Launch Site in ...
Source: Moondaily.com
NASA wants to use a fleet of MoonFall drones to scout the lunar south pole: 'We believe we can do it'
NASA is exploring ways to use a fleet of drones to explore the lunar south pole with an ambitious new MoonFall project.
Source: Space.com
A billion-year secret: How Lunar ice could turn the Moon into a Space ‘gas station', provide fuel for Mars trip
Scientists have confirmed lunar polar ice has been accumulating for 1.5 billion years. This ancient ice, scattered across different regions, offers vi...
Source: The Times of India
A Fresh Scar on the Moon: Newly Discovered Crater Reveals Recent Impact - Gizmodo
A Fresh Scar on the Moon: Newly Discovered Crater Reveals Recent ImpactGizmodo Reading the moon's buried pastPhys.org NASA just spotted a fresh c...
Source: Slashdot.org
Reading the Moon’s Buried Past.
The lunar south pole is where humanity plans to build its first permanent outpost but we still don't fully understand what lies beneath the surfa...
Source: Universe Today
The moon's oldest and darkest craters could be hiding the most water ice. That's good news for future astronauts
New research shows that craters near the moon's south pole that have been in permanent shadow the longest are more likely to contain the most wat...
Source: Space.com