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Chandrayaan-3 makes a soft landing near the Moon's South Pole, marking India's first landing on the Moon and the first soft landing of a spacecraft near the lunar South Pole.
2023-08-23

Russia launches the Luna 25 lunar lander at the Vostochny Cosmodrome, which will touch down near the Moon's south pole. The mission will investigate the composition of the moon's polar soil as well as the plasma and dust contained in the lunar exosphere.
2023-08-11

NASA's "Orion" spacecraft performs a flyby of the Moon, coming within 130 km of the lunar surface before entering into a lunar orbit.
2022-11-21

A new lunar mineral is discovered by the Beijing Research Institute of Uranium Geology, which is named Changesite–(Y).
2022-09-9

China National Space Administration (CNSA) spacecraft Chang'e 5 returns to Earth carrying samples of lunar rocks and soil from the surface of the Moon. The capsule will be airlifted to Beijing for formal opening and the samples will be made available to scientists in other countries, according to the CNSA.
2020-12-16

NASA confirms water has been spotted on the sunlit surface of the moon.
2020-10-26

SpaceX announces that Japanese billionaire and art collector Yusaku Maezawa will be the first commercial passenger to orbit the Moon on their BFR rocket in 2023.
2018-09-17

As predicted by NASA, the Apollo-group-type asteroid 2012 TC4 (approximately 15 m in diameter) passes a distance of 0.0003352 AU mi from Earth, well within the Moon's orbit.
2017-10-12

Scientists from UCLA conclude that study of the geology of the Earth and Moon indicate that both consist of a mixture of rocks from the original Earth and a hypothesized planetary-mass object called Theia after a collision.
2016-01-29

NASA's twin GRAIL probes have revealed the surface of the Moon in unprecedented detail, showing unexpectedly-deep cracks, craters and tectonic structures.
2012-12-6