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France faces a mounting sovereign debt test as investors demand a higher premium to hold its bonds, raising the cost of financing a budget already under strain. The warning from the head of the French central bank underscores how quickly market confidence can erode when fiscal discipline appears uncertain.
The renewed push to return humans to the Moon is no longer just about flags and footprints. It is increasingly about whether governments and private industry can assemble the power, materials, robotics and communications needed to sustain a permanent settlement in one of the harshest environments in the solar system. The technical challenge is immense, but the strategic logic is clear: a lunar city would become a proving ground for deep-space industry, science and geopolitics.
On Oct. 11, 1968, Apollo 7 lifted off and carried NASA’s first Apollo crew into orbit, restoring confidence in the agency’s lunar program after the Apollo 1 fire. The mission proved the redesigned spacecraft could support astronauts in space and helped set the technical and operational foundation for the Moon landings that followed.
Margaret Hamilton, the pioneering computer scientist whose flight software helped guide Apollo 11 to the Moon, has died at the age of 90, closing a chapter in the history of space exploration and modern computing. Her work at NASA helped establish software engineering as a discipline and remains central to the story of how the United States achieved the first lunar landing.
A newly studied buried rock on the Moon’s far side is adding weight to the idea that the Moon once generated a long-lived internal magnetic field, a finding that could reshape scientific understanding of lunar evolution. The research, tied to samples and observations from China’s Chang’e-6 mission, suggests the Moon’s magnetic history may have been more complex and more Earth-like than previously believed.
A newly studied rock from the Moon’s far side could help resolve one of lunar science’s longest-running mysteries: how the Moon once generated a magnetic field comparable in some respects to Earth’s. Researchers say the sample, returned by China’s Chang’e-6 mission, preserves evidence of an ancient magnetic signal that may point to a hidden volcanic structure and a more dynamic lunar interior than previously assumed.
A newly studied rock sample from the Moon’s far side is helping scientists revisit one of lunar science’s longest-running mysteries: how the Moon generated and then lost its ancient magnetic field. The findings add weight to the idea that the Moon once had a far more complex internal dynamo than previously understood, with implications for planetary evolution far beyond lunar geology.
A newly studied buried rock on the Moon’s far side is offering scientists a fresh way to reconstruct the Moon’s ancient magnetic field, a feature that has long defied easy explanation. The findings, tied to samples and orbital data from Chinese and international missions, could help clarify how the Moon generated and then lost a magnetic dynamo billions of years ago.
NASA is investigating a large hole on the Moon that may open into an extensive underground cave system, a discovery with major implications for future lunar exploration and long-duration human presence. Scientists say such lava tubes could offer natural shielding from radiation, temperature extremes, and micrometeorite impacts, making them strategically important for future Moon missions.
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