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Armenia signs the Artemis Accords at a NASA Headquarters ceremony, becoming the 43rd country to join the American-led effort to explore the Moon.
2024-06-12

The Indian Space Research Organization launches Chandrayaan-3 on a mission to the Moon. The mission will deploy the Vikram lander and Pragyan rover to study the Moon's surface for two weeks. The mission is similar to the failed Chandrayaan-2 mission, which crashed shortly before landing in 2019.
2023-07-14

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

Scientists at the Spring, Texas, Arch Mission Foundation confirm that tardigrades in a cryptobiotic state were added to the payload of the failed SpaceIL "Beresheet" lander that crashed on the Moon on 11 April 2019, and may have survived the crash.
2019-08-6

Israel's "Beresheet" lunar lander crashes at Mare Serenitatis on the surface of the Moon. The crash resulted from a failure in the lander's main engine, resulting in the total loss of the spacecraft.
2019-04-11

Asteroid 3122 Florence, which is roughly 2.7 miles (4.4 kilometers) wide, comes within 4.4 million miles (7 million km) of Earth — approximately 18 times the distance from our planet to the Moon.
2017-09-1

Brown University researchers discover that a substantial amount of water may be present beneath the surface of the Moon.
2017-07-24

A newly observed near-Earth asteroid 2013 EC passes Earth within the orbit of the Moon.
2013-03-4

NASA succeeds in putting the first of two Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory satellites in orbit around the moon.
2011-12-31

The moon reaches its closest point to the Earth since March 1993, and will appear 30% brighter and 14% larger than at its furthest point.
2011-03-19