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The #lunar crash of a Falcon 9 upper stage is expected at 06:35:37.5 UTC /- a few seconds: https://www.projectpluto.com/25010d.htm#where - find out more in the papers https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.14625 and https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.23904 and https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.00360 while on https://www.youtube.com/live/9J9-U307w7U and https://www.youtube.com/live/ZfgrV4nmvcg and https://www.youtube.com/live/UKIIMm6TwT8 live views of the Moon at impact time are planned.

Can Spacecraft-Borne Contamination Compromise Our Understanding of #Lunar Ice Chemistry? https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2025JE009132 -> Future moon landings could wipe out clues to how life began on Earth: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/07/260710003537.htm - spacecraft exhaust may spread across the moon surprisingly fast, threatening to contaminate ancient lunar records that could reveal how life on Earth began.

New Constraints on the Spatial and Temporal Evolution of the Lunar Surface Regolith: #lunar explorers, depending on the task at hand.

Thick Lunar Crust Amplifies Deci-Hertz Gravitational-Wave Signals / Gravitational-Wave Tomography of the Moon: Constraining #Lunar Structure with Calibrated Gravitational Waves: #GravitationalWave Detectors Get a Lift from Geology: #Moon might gather more information than previously thought, thanks to geology.

A Comparison of Lunar AI-based Crater Databases Using Uniform Criteria: #LunarCrater catalogs: https://www.swri.org/newsroom/press-releases/swri-study-discovers-discrepancies-ai-lunar-crater-catalogs

On the Anticipation of #Lunar Travel in the Early 20th Century - A Pedagogical Exercise: https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.12582 -> "This article examines, from historical and pedagogical perspectives, Alphonse Berget's anticipation of Earth-Moon travel in Le Ciel (Larousse, 1923), decades before the beginning of the space age. [...] Unlike earlier fictional treatments such as Jules Verne's De la Terre a la Lune, Berget approached space travel using physical reasoning grounded in Newtonian gravitation. [...] His estimated Earth-Moon travel time of approximately 49 hours is of the same order of magnitude as Apollo mission transit times (approx. 72 h)."

The bombardment history on the #lunar farside revealed by 40Ar/39Ar geochronology of Chang’e-6 impact melt rocks: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.aee8718 -> "The presence of older ages (>4.0 Ga) and lack of predominant age around ∼3.9 Ga suggest that the lunar farside bombardment was not dominated by a cataclysmic spike but by a smooth long-term decline punctuated by later impacts" -> Rocks from unexplored far side of the moon help rewrite lunar history: https://www.curtin.edu.au/news/media-release/rocks-from-unexplored-far-side-of-the-moon-help-rewrite-lunar-history/

Twin Impact Lunar Telescope network - #LunarImpact Flash observations of the 2025 #Geminids: #LIFs."