This week on SciShow Space News, researchers have figured out which gas drives fire fountain eruptions on the Moon. And you can send a message or your name to the Moon or Mars!

A private company has been approved to land on the moon!

Before there was a rover named Perseverance, there was a series of missions that earned that name in their own right.

Did you know there will be a lunar eclipse this week? Jessi and Squeaks explore what causes lunar eclipses and why they can make the moon look red!

If we hope to someday live on other worlds we need to figure out where we’re gonna lay our heads at “night.” But who would have thought we could use our own bodies as ingredients for our homes?!

Every year the moon’s orbit gets a little bigger and it moves just a little farther away. Should we worry about the Moon breaking free?

For astronauts, dust is no joke. On the moon and Mars, dust isn't at all like the stuff under your bed. It can be poisonous, corrosive, even made of razor-sharp glass. So future astronauts are going to need more than a dust buster to get...

Bad tidings - the tides are slowing down the earth!

The equator is a clear and accurate line around Earth that makes measuring latitude a precise science, but when it came to figuring out how to do that with longitude, British sailors were at a loss. Until they devised a competition.

The moon's South Pole-Aitken basin is the largest known crater in existence, and there's something big hidden underneath.

Did you know the moon has a tail? No one did, until 1998, and we've been trying to figure it out ever since.

China's new Mengzhou spacecraft completed a crew escape system test at the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center. The spacecraft will be used for future crewed lunar missions.



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Japanese company ispace's Resilience lander will attempt to touch down on the moon.



"The solar-powered lander carried five science payloads, including a micro moon rover named Tenacious," according to S

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See lunar rover prototypes being tested in China. <b<br/>r/>

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Institute of Space Environment and Material Science at Harbin Institute of Technology has a chamber that can create the "environment similar to the lunar surface," according to China Central Television.



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NASA engineers are designing next-generation spacesuits to support daily exploration tasks on the Moon and Mars, focusing on mobility, dust control, and innovative suit-port systems to reduce contamination risks. Training programs such...

The robots loved flying around on the rocket so much that they've decided to play on the Moon. Lea and Leo are watching the robots from their communication tower. Something's gone wrong. The robots are stuck in the crater and can't get...

We analyse Moon Sniper/SLIM, Japan's recent successful mission to the Moon.

The success of the Chandrayaan-3 mission raises even more questions about our already mysterious Moon.

VIPER, PRIME-1, Chandrayaan 3 and PROSPECT look to find water on the Moon.

A look at permanently shadowed regions on the Moon where NASA and KARI hopes to find water ice.