Earth's Moon

Earth's Moon
Michoud Assembly Facility
Just after sunrise, the waning gibbous moon sets just behind a waving United States flag on March 19, 2025, in this image from NASA’s Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans. The waning gibbous moon phase comes after the full moon. As the Moon begins its journey back toward the Sun, the opposite side of the […]
Posted May 23, 2025
Earth's Moon
Goddard Space Flight Center
Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO)
NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera (LROC) imaged the landing area of the ispace SMBC x HAKUTO-R Venture Moon Mission 2 RESILIENCE lunar lander which is slated to land on the surface of the Moon no earlier than June 5, 2025 (UTC). This view of the primary landing area is 3.13 miles (5,040 meters) wide and north is up. […]
Posted May 16, 2025
Vesta
Dawn
Earth's Moon
GRAIL (Gravity Recovery And Interior Laboratory)
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Planetary Science
Small Bodies of the Solar System
The Solar System
Analyzing gravity data collected by spacecraft orbiting other worlds reveals groundbreaking insights about planetary structures without having to land on the surface. Although the Moon and the asteroid Vesta are very different, two NASA studies use the same technique to reveal new details about the interiors of both.
Posted May 14, 2025
Earth's Moon
Artemis 2
Exploration Systems Development Mission Directorate
Prizes, Challenges, & Crowdsourcing News
Social Media
NASA will host a live Twitch event to highlight the ongoing Moon Mascot Challenge, which invites the public to design a zero gravity indicator for the agency’s Artemis II crewed test flight around the Moon. Viewers will have the opportunity to provide real-time input to an artist who will create an example of a zero […]
Posted May 12, 2025
Kennedy Space Center
Earth's Moon
Game Changing Development Program
Partner With Us
Research and Technology at Kennedy Space Center
Space Technology Mission Directorate
As NASA works to establish a long-term presence on the Moon, researchers have reached a breakthrough by extracting oxygen at a commercial scale from simulated lunar soil at Swamp Works at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The achievement moves NASA one step closer to its goal of utilizing resources on the Moon and beyond […]
Posted May 5, 2025
Kennedy Space Center
Earth's Moon
Game Changing Development Program
Moons
NASA Directorates
Research and Technology at Kennedy Space Center
Space Technology Mission Directorate
A NASA-developed technology that recently proved its capabilities in the harsh environment of space will soon head back to the Moon to search for gases trapped under the lunar surface thanks to a new Cooperative Research and Development Agreement between NASA and commercial company Magna Petra Corp.
Posted April 28, 2025
Artemis
Artemis 4
Earth's Moon
Exploration Systems Development Mission Directorate
Gateway Space Station
General
Humans in Space
NASA continues to mark progress on plans to work with commercial and international partners as part of the Gateway program. The primary structure of HALO (Habitation and Logistics Outpost) arrived at Northrop Grumman’s facility in Gilbert, Arizona, where it will undergo final outfitting and verification testing.
Posted April 26, 2025
Artemis 3
Earth's Moon
Exploration Systems Development Mission Directorate
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
NASA Engineering & Safety Center Academy
Spacesuits
xEVA & Human Surface Mobility
A JPL facility built to support potential robotic spacecraft missions to frozen ocean worlds helps engineers develop safety tests for next-generation spacesuits.
Posted April 24, 2025
Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS)
Artemis
Earth's Moon
Science & Research
Science Mission Directorate
Space Technology Mission Directorate
Shortly after touching down inside a crater on the Moon, carrying NASA technology and science on its IM-2 mission, Intuitive Machines collected some data for the agency before calling an early end of mission at 12:15 a.m. CST Friday. As part of the company’s second Moon delivery for NASA under the agency’s CLPS (Commercial Lunar […]
Posted March 7, 2025
Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS)
Artemis
Earth's Moon
Johnson Space Center
Science Mission Directorate
Carrying NASA technology demonstrations and science investigations, Intuitive Machines is targeting their Moon landing no earlier than 12:32 p.m. EST on Thursday, March 6.
Posted March 4, 2025
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