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The Moon Daily Editorial Team produces Moon Daily's coverage of lunar exploration and science. We report on Artemis, landers and the Gateway, commercial lunar payloads, and the science of lunar geology, regolith and water ice. Articles reflect our team's collective editorial process, source verification, drafting, technical review, and editing, rather than a single writer's work. Moon Daily takes editorial responsibility for content under this byline. For more on how we work, see our editorial policy.

The Trump administration’s proposed rewrite of the Uniform Guidance would require political appointees to review every discretionary federal grant for alignment with presidential priorities, turning peer-review panels of scientists into advisory bodies that agency officials could override at will

The Office of Management and Budget's May 2026 proposal to rewrite the Uniform Guidance drew nearly 500,000 public comments and a rare joint objection from the presidents of all three National Academies, who warned that inserting political appointees into peer review would reshape how every discretionary federal science grant is awarded.

Sep 17, 2026

The Moon is under constant micrometeoroid bombardment, and because there is no atmosphere to slow anything down, even grain-sized particles arrive at up to 72 kilometres per second and briefly vaporise the rock into a glowing plasma — the Artemis II crew watched six of those flashes in April 2026

The Moon has no atmosphere to slow incoming debris, so grain-sized meteoroids strike its surface at velocities approaching 72,000 kilometres per hour — briefly vaporising rock into glowing plasma. In April 2026, Artemis II astronauts watched this bombardment happen in real time.

Aug 5, 2026

The Moon has a permanent tail of sodium atoms stretching hundreds of thousands of kilometres behind it, invisible to the naked eye but bright enough that a telescope on Earth can photograph it glowing every new moon

The Moon is continually releasing sodium atoms into space, creating a faint comet-like tail that can extend for roughly half a million miles, or about 800,000 kilometres.

Aug 3, 2026

In 1971, Apollo 14 commander Alan Shepard attached a hidden six-iron head to a lunar sampling tool and hit two golf balls one-handed on the Moon; the longer shot travelled roughly 40 yards in one-sixth gravity

On 6 February 1971, Apollo 14 commander Alan Shepard swung a modified six-iron one-handed on the lunar surface. Fifty years later, imaging specialist Andy Saunders measured his best shot at 40 yards — not miles.

Aug 3, 2026

In 1965, Soviet chief designer Sergei Korolev died on an operating table while the world still knew him only as ‘the Chief Designer’ — his name a state secret so tightly held that even Yuri Gagarin had never been allowed to speak it in public

Sergei Korolev built Sputnik, launched Gagarin, and reshaped the twentieth century — all while the Soviet state kept his name a secret so tightly held that even the first man in space couldn't say it aloud.

Jul 25, 2026

The Moon is moving away from Earth at about 3.8 centimetres per year, roughly the pace fingernails grow, and in 600 million years it will drift far enough that total solar eclipses become geometrically impossible

We're living through a cosmic accident—one that's closing for good in 600 million years.

Jul 22, 2026

Chang’e-6 farside samples reshape lunar impact history

Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Feb 16, 2026 - Scientists from the Institute of Geology and Geophysics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), the CAS Aerospace Information Research Institute, and collaborating institutions have used samples f

Feb 16, 2026

The Race Is On: Artemis, China and Musk Turn the Moon Into the Next Strategic High Ground

New York NY (SPX) Feb 09, 2026 - When Artemis II finally lights its engines and arcs away from Cape Canaveral, it will do more than send four astronauts on a ten-day loop around the Moon. It will fire the starting gun on a race tha

Feb 9, 2026

DLR plans new control center for future Moon and Mars missions

Berlin, Germany (SPX) Feb 08, 2026 - For upcoming human and robotic missions to the Moon and Mars, the German Aerospace Center (DLR) will establish a new Human Exploration Control Center (HECC) at its site in Oberpfaffenhofen near Muni

Feb 8, 2026

First Crewed Moon Flyby In 54 Years: Artemis II

Tempe AZ (SPX) Feb 08, 2026 - Almost as tall as a football field, NASAs Space Launch System rocket and capsule stack traveled slowly - just under 1 mile per hour - out to the Artemis II launchpad, its temporary home at the Kenne

Feb 8, 2026

Artemis II teams step through full-scale launch rehearsal at Kennedy

Los Angeles CA (SPX) Feb 06, 2026 - The countdown for NASA's Artemis II wet dress rehearsal is underway at the agency's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, marking a key test before the first crewed flight of the Space Launch System rock

Feb 6, 2026

Lunar soil test chamber paves way for future moon construction

Paris, France (SPX) Feb 05, 2026 - Before any building rises on the Moon, engineers will need to understand the soil beneath their structures just as they do on Earth. To address this challenge, a recent ESA Discovery project led by

Feb 5, 2026

Voyager outlines infrastructure-led roadmap for long-term US lunar presence

Los Angeles CA (SPX) Feb 04, 2026 - Voyager Technologies has launched a strategic lunar initiative designed to align with the White House Securing American Space Superiority executive order and to reinforce United States leadership be

Feb 4, 2026

NASA conducts vital tests ahead of slated Moon mission

New York (AFP) Feb 2, 2026 - NASA on Monday was conducting critical final tests ahead of setting a launch date for its first crewed flyby mission to the Moon in more than half a century.

Feb 2, 2026

The Perception War: How Artemis II Could Win the Race Without Landing

New York NY (SPX) Jan 31, 2026 - As NASA counts down toward humanity's first crewed lunar mission in more than half a century, a question beyond engineering is taking shape: Can a flight that never touches the surface still define who wins the Second Moon Race?

Jan 31, 2026

Networks ready to keep Artemis II crew connected around the Moon

Los Angeles CA (SPX) Jan 30, 2026 - NASA is preparing a pair of global communications networks to keep the four-person Artemis II crew connected with Earth as they travel from low Earth orbit to a loop around the Moon and back. The mi

Jan 30, 2026