A blood moon total lunar eclipse occurring on March 3, 2026, will peak at 10:57 UTC, after the Moon enters totality at 10:29 UTC and remains fully immersed in Earth’s shadow for approximately 56 minutes. The event will be visible from much of Asia and Oceania, with live streams providing real-time views as totality unfolds.
A bright lunar impact flash was recorded on the night side of the first-quarter Moon at 11:33 UTC on October 30, 2025. The flash occurred east of Gassendi crater at latitude –16°, longitude 324°.
Scientists are using subtle changes in gravity to reveal the hidden interiors of the Moon and asteroid Vesta. By tracking spacecraft movements, they’ve created detailed maps that uncover thermal differences on the Moon and a uniform structure inside Vesta. This method opens new doors for exploring distant worlds without landing on them.
A NASA experiment shows how solar wind can form water on the lunar surface. The study, conducted with Apollo 17 samples, simulated 80,000 years of solar wind exposure.
LuGRE successfully acquired and tracked Earth-based GNSS signal on March 3, 2025, becoming the first technology demonstration to achieve this feat on the Moon’s surface.
Small-scale tectonic structures have been identified on the Moon’s farside maria and within the South Pole–Aitken (SPA) Basin, revealing recent and potentially ongoing contractional tectonism. The discovery challenges previous assumptions that tectonic activity on the Moon ceased billions of years ago.
Two lunar impacts were recorded on December 8, 2024, by Japanese astronomer Daichi Fujii, who captured the events using high-speed recording equipment. The observations were made during routine skywatching activities, which coincided with a Saturn eclipse.
A recent study published in the Planetary Science Journal by T. R. Watters and colleagues in 2024 highlights the contractional deformation and associated seismicity at the lunar south pole, particularly within the de Gerlache Rim 2 Artemis III candidate landing region, raising concerns for future robotic and human exploration.
A new study in Nature Geoscience identified impact glass beads in lunar soils as a significant water reservoir. The researchers estimate that the total amount of water contained within impact glass beads found in lunar soils could be as much as 2.7 x 1014 kg — equivalent to 270 trillion kg.
Current physics does not accept or rather understand that during the full moon and new moon, a very strong surface magnetic field is generated.
