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From the James McConnell Show: Join us to discuss Dr. Jack Burns' 50+ year career working as an Astrophysicist and Professor. We discuss his journey to put a radio telescope on the moon and future plans for an array of telescopes on the lunar far side! Watch the video.

From Business Insider: Gazing at the moon, you may see a face or a round of cheese, but some astronomers see the ideal spot for their next giant telescope. They're already drafting blueprints and making proposals — some with cash from an interested NASA. One moonshot plan would build a...

From Leonard David's Inside Outer Space: “We can clearly say that the dawn of radio astronomy from the Moon has begun!” That’s the word from Jack Burns, a University of Colorado/Boulder astrophysicist. He is a co-investigator on the ROLSES instrument now on the Moon courtesy of the Intuitive Machines lunar...

From The Conversation: For the first time since 1972, NASA is putting science experiments on the Moon in 2024. And thanks to new technologies and public-private partnerships, these projects will open up new realms of scientific possibility. As parts of several projects launching this year, teams of scientists, including myself,...

From the American Astronomical Society Plenary Lecture series: Watch a talk by Dr. Jack Burns about Radio Astrophysics and Cosmology from the Moon from January 2024.

From Space.com: NEW ORLEANS — It was only two days ago when Peregrine, the inaugural private lander contracted under NASA's Commercial Lunar Payload Services program, brilliantly blasted toward space aboard the first private flight of United Launch Alliance's Vulcan rocket. Mere hours into the journey, Peregrine started to fail. Astrobotic,...

From arsTechnica: NASA has not sent a spacecraft to make a soft landing on the Moon since the Apollo 17 mission in December 1972. Since that time, the Soviet Union, China, and India have successfully landed there, but the United States has gone elsewhere. There are various reasons for this,...

From the Daily Camera: The University of Colorado Boulder is building three instruments that will fly in NASA’s Artemis missions and help prepare astronauts to land on the moon for the first time since the Apollo missions. All three instruments will fly before the anticipated launch of Artemis 3 in...

From CU Boulder Today: Early in the morning Mountain Time today, an Indian lander named Vikram became the first spacecraft to touch down on the surface of the moon near its South Pole. The lander, which carried a six-wheeled rover and is part of the Chandrayaan-3 mission, was a monumental...

From BBC: Right now, a mini space race is afoot. Two spacecraft, one Russian and the other Indian, are headed for the South Pole of the Moon – where no lander has ever successfully gone before. The Russian and Indian vehicles are on competing quests to search for water ice...