Science from the Moon

Maintained by Jean Schneider - Paris Observatory

jean.schneider@obspm.fr

Update 21 March 2025
A general presentations
update 17 March 2025
L'Astronomie depuis la Lune  

• Past and current missions
  Update 10 March 2025
  • 15 January 2025: Blue Ghost  
  • 15 January 2025: Ispace  
  • 03 May 2024:Chang'e 6  
  • 23 March 2024: Intuitive Machines IM-1    
  • 14 February 2024: Odysseous  
  • 8 January 2024: Peregrine   Astrobotic
  • 14 July 2023: Chandrayaan-3   India
• Scheduled missions
  Update 27 February 2025
  • 2027: IM-4  
  • 2032: South Korean lander  
• Telescopes and detectors
  Update 6 February 2025
  
  • Lunar Ultraviolet Telescope  
• Articles
  Update 21 March 2025
  • Low-frequency technology for a lunar interferometer’   Adami et al.
  • Published on Feb 07, 2024 The Lunar Pole - A Uniquely Powerful Site for UVOIR Astronomy   Angel
  • A 600 m2 array of 6.5 m telescopes at the lunar pole   R. Angel
  • Modes of the Dark Ages 21 cm field accessible to a lunar radio interferometer   Ph. Bull et al.
  • Transformative science from the lunar farside: observations of the dark ages and exoplanetary systems at low radio frequencies’   Burns et al.
  • Large-scale array for radio astronomy on the farside (LARAF)   X. Chen et al.
  • Opportunities and limits of lunar gravitational-wave detection   A. Cozzumbo et al.
  • High-energy particle observations from the Moon   I. Dandouras et al.
  • Cosmic mysteries and the hydrogen 21-cm line: bridging the gap with lunar observations   A. Fialkov et al.
  • X-ray astronomy from the lunar surface  P. Gandhi
  • Results from NASA's First Radio Telescope on the Moon: Terrestrial Technosignatures and the Low-Frequency Galactic Background Observed by ROLSES-1 Onboard the Odysseus Lander   Hibbard et al.
  • The lunar dust environment: concerns for Moon-based astronomy   M. Horanyi et al.
  • Potential and perils: paths to protecting lunar sites of extraordinary scientific importance (SESIs) for astronomy before it is too late   A. Krolikovski et al.
  • Modelling science return from the lunar crater radio telescope on the far side of the moon   D. Pisanti et al.
  • Astronomy from the Moon: From Exoplanets to Cosmology in Visible Light and Beyond   J. Schneider et al.
  • OWL-MOON: Very high resolution spectro-imaging and Earth-Moon interferometry: exoplanets to cosmology   J. Schneider et al.
  • OWL-Moon in 2050 and Beyond   J. Schneider et al.
  • Astronomy from the Moon: the next decades (part 2)   J. Silk et al.
• Conferences
  Update 6 February 2025
  
  • Lunar Scientific Exploration: Plans and Preparations  
• Space Agencies
  Update 6 February 2025
  • Bahrein Space Agency
    Update 17 March 2025
    • National Space Science Agency (NSSA)  
  • Canadian Space Agency
    Update 6 February 2025
    • Moon Exploration  
  • Chinese National Space Administration
    Update 6 February 2025
    • CNSA Site  
  • Egypt Space Agency
    Update 17 March 2025
    • LunaHC  
  • ESA Update 28 January 2025
    • ESA Lunar Ideas 2022
• Companies
  Update 6 February 2025
  • Astrobotics  
• Organizations
  Update 12 March 2025
  • Lunar Exploration Analysis Group  
  • International Lunar Observatory Association