Articles

Cees Bassa

Radio amateurs around the world worked together to take an image of the Earth and the far side of the Moon.

Bruce Betts

A collection of before and after slider images showing how views of planets in our solar system have changed over the years since NASA was created.

Emily Lakdawalla

With my first issue of The Planetary Report as editor, I am taking the magazine open-access. Return to Mercury features articles by Elsa Montagnon on BepiColombo and by Long Xiao on the Chang'e-4 and -5 landers.

Long Xiao

Long Xiao previews two ambitious Chinese lunar missions, one of which will make the first-ever landing on the far side of the Moon.

Sriram Bhiravarasu

Sriram Bhiravarasu anticipates India’s 2019 lunar venture with an orbiter, lander, and rover.

Emily Lakdawalla

Chandrayaan-2, expected to launch in October, will now be launching no earlier than 3 January 2019, with its lander and rover touching down in February.

Jatan Mehta

Where did the Moon come from? The origin of our cosmic neighbor is a fundamental question in planetary science.

Melissa Lane

Petrology is a field of science in which scientists study the compositions of rocks and minerals and interpret their geologic history. A common graph petrologists use is the “pyroxene quadrilateral.” These graphs, like photos of space, can reveal an understanding of the remotest parts of the solar system.

Jason Davis

See the world through the eyes of Longjiang-2.

Geoffrey Reeves

At five years and counting, the Van Allen Probes mission continues to reshape our thinking about how Earth’s radiation belts flex and reconfigure under the influence of solar storms.

Jason Davis

Revisiting images of Earth taken from the uncrewed Apollo 4 command module in 1967.

Tess Caswell

Returning to the Moon won’t be easy, even though we’ve been there before.

Luyuan Xu

China's fourth lunar mission, Chang’e 4, is expected to begin on May 21 with the launch of a Long March 4C rocket from the Xichang Satellite Launch Centre in the southwest of China. The launch will carry a spacecraft named Queqiao, which will serve as a communication relay satellite between Earth and the lunar farside.

Jason Davis

The mission survived NASA's Journey to Mars era, only to be axed once short-term goals shifted back to the Moon.

Sriparna Saha

You might be surprised to learn that studying craters on the Moon can tell us about ancient Earth.

Anatoly Zak

The plan involves NASA's proposed Lunar Orbital Platform-Gateway, and a return to Earth via the Orion spacecraft.

Emily Lakdawalla

The first astrobiology session at last week's Lunar and Planetary Science Conference featured talks on a huge variety of interesting topics, and was one of my favorite sessions at the meeting.

Megan Kelley

The only geoscientist to walk on the Moon attended a conference session presenting results from the rocks he collected.

Emily Lakdawalla

For this Moon Monday, Emily digs up a classic from the end of the Apollo program.

Jason Davis

Only three humans have ever been on a spacewalk in the void between the Earth and Moon.