Luna-25 Successfully Touches Down on the Moon, LK99 Lab Updates from India and More News - 8.12.2023

Correction: We botched this one. Looks like Luna 25 experienced a technical difficulty and failed to reach the lunar surface intact.

On today’s episode, the Russian uncrewed space probe Luna-25 has successfully descended toward the lunar surface, and also in science news some exciting — yet confusing — data emerged from India, where a laboratory replicated the LK-99 sample described a couple weeks prior by scientists at a conference in Seoul, South Korea.