The LunarLeaper is a hopping robot that would visit a lunar skylight, a collapsed part of a lunar lava tube. The robot would give us our first look at the lunar subsurface and the lava tubes.

New research has found that one of those pits, in Mare Tranquillitatis, collapsed into a lava tube and made an underground ...

Data from the Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory (GRAIL) support the presence of a network of large, empty caves in the lunar lava flows, with an initially estimated extension of 1-2 km in width ...

“Earth’s caves provide an excellent simulation of lunar lava tubes in terms of internal structure, natural environment, and isolation from the external world,” said Xie, in an interview with ...

Lunar orbiters first detected pits on the Moon over a decade ago. Many of these pits are believed to be "skylights" connecting to underground caves like lava tubes, created through volcanic activity.

Formed by the collapse of a lava tube, this cave is one of over 200 similar pits identified on the lunar surface, representing potential sites for future exploration. These caves could serve as ...

These lava tubes could serve as ideal habitats, offering protection from cosmic rays, solar radiation, and micrometeorites. Lunar orbiters had first spotted pits more than a decade ago ...

“This kind of lunar landing assessment hasn’t been ... the Vallis Schroteri is believed to have been formed by a collapsed lava tube that flowed from the Cobra Head crater located on the ...