Lunar Outpost, Inc. has delivered its first flight model rover, the Lunar Vertex Mobile Autonomous Prospecting Platform (MAPP), to the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in ...

The Universities Space Research Association’s Lunar and Planetary Institute (LPI) invites applications for lunar science and exploration postdoctoral fellowships. Opportunities include: Lunar ...

In lunar and planetary studies, it is essential to determine the age of important geologic units and events. Previous lunar samples were collected from the Moon by the Apollo and Luna missions ...

They then updated the most widely used chronology model, the Neukum model, which was devised in 1983 by the late Professor Gerhard Neukum, a planetary scientist at the Free University of Berlin.

What are the characteristics of these wheels and how they support lunar use? HTR has been manufacturing, testing and ...

A visitor learns about the world's first professional, multimodal large language model (LLM) for the field of lunar science during the China International Big Data Industry Expo in Guiyang ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — Lava tubes large enough to house cities could be structurally stable on the moon, according to a theoretical study presented at the Lunar and Planetary Science Conference on ...

Harrison Schmitt, Apollo 17 astronaut and geologist, collecting samples of lunar soil in 1972. Along with Eugene Cernan, Schmitt collected about 245 pounds of material for return to Earth.

A series of failures. Amid the rising cost of its Discovery and New Frontiers-class missions, NASA sought to open a new category of missions that would trade lower cost for higher risk.