Robert Reeves, Author at Astronomy.com

Human Spaceflight

The flight path of Artemis 2, step by step

Deep-Sky Objects

Magnificent NGC clusters in the winter sky

Deep-Sky Objects

Discover great star clusters of the New General Catalogue

The Orientale and Crisium basins

Asteroids hitting the Moon may have spiked its magnetic field

Robotic Spaceflight

Firefly’s Blue Ghost lander nails lunar mission

Robotic Spaceflight, Space Exploration

The new golden age of Moon exploration

How moonquakes could rattle Artemis astronauts

The Moon’s epic ‘grand canyons’ were gouged out in 10 minutes by an asteroid strike

The middle-aged Moon had a magnetic field

Human Spaceflight

How Artemis will land humans on the Moon

Earth’s gravity gave the Moon an early facelift

A color photograph shows the metallic, multi-tiered spacecraft resting on a grey, bumpy, and uneven ground that slopes upward from left to right. The gold- and silver-wrapped vehicle sits in the center of the frame under a stark black sky, with a long robotic arm extended outward to its left. The scene features high contrast between the brightly lit spacecraft, the light grey ground, and the pitch-black background.

Chang’e 6 shakes up our knowledge of the Moon’s farside