Articles by

Lisa Grossman

A private moon lander challenges ideas about lunar volcanism

The first measurements from a private spacecraft on the moon may reopen an old debate about why...

NASA’s DART spacecraft changed an asteroid’s orbit around the sun

A spacecraft slowed the orbit of a pair of asteroids around the sun by more than 10...

Chickpeas can grow in moon dirt and make seeds

Homegrown chickpeas could be on the menu for future astronauts. With help from compost and symbiotic fungi,...

A Titan collision may link Saturn’s tilt, its moon Hyperion and its rings

Two of Saturn’s satellites — its largest and one of its weirdest — may owe their current...

NASA scraps its 2027 moon landing, adds two missions in 2028

NASA’s path to the moon is taking a detour. The Artemis III mission, scheduled for 2027, will...

On moonshots and Minneapolis

Since the beginning of the year, I’ve been gearing up to cover the launch of NASA’s Artemis...

Artemis II is returning humans to the moon with science riding shotgun

For the first time in more than 50 years, humans are on the verge of returning to...

A massive cosmic ring may challenge a key assumption about the universe

PHOENIX — An abnormally huge cosmic structure has put a ring on it — and that bling...