Night after night, our Moon is slipping away – so slowly you’d never notice, so surely that lasers can. Scientists have been timing the round‑trip blink of laser pulses off Apollo-era mirrors and finding the lunar distance grows by a few centimeters each year. That recession is more than a curiosity; it is a ...
For decades, the Moon played the role of the perfect desert, an airless relic that kept its secrets buried in dust and shadow. Then the data started to whisper: faint counts in a mass spectrometer here, a spectral bump in the infrared there, and a trickle of molecules showing up when no one expected ...
In a decade defined by big bets and bigger questions, NASA’s Artemis campaign is the boldest wager America has placed on the Moon since Apollo. The problem is simple enough to state and astonishingly hard to solve: can we learn to live, work, and do science in deep space for months at a time, far ...
