This was the company's second attempt to land on the Moon, with both missions having toppled over on the lunar surface.

Several issues conspired to bring Athena down, including tough lighting conditions near the moon's south pole.

The mission team knows Lunar Trailblazer's precise position thanks to ground-based tracking, NASA officials said the update.

after the larger crater, Mersenius E,' explained Noah Petro, a project scientist for the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera (LROC) mission. LROC is a Nasa craft currently orbiting the moon to map ...

Elevation data shows the lunar South Pole-Aitken Basin, the largest and oldest impact basin on the moon, in blue and purple. | Credit: NASA/GSFC/University of Arizona A giant impact crater on the moon ...

Japanese company ispace says its second lunar lander in now in orbit around the moon ahead of a landing attempt in early June ...

During the Cold War, the U.S. and USSR raced to be first to send robotic and human explorers to the Moon, traversing lunar ...

Scientists hoped that the lunar ... the moon’s surface. During the mapping, images of the South Pole-Aitken basin were taken, revealing that it may be the largest and deepest impact crater ...

Mylswamy Annadurai, the project director for the lunar ... the orbiter is designed to withstand up to 60 degrees Celsius (140 degrees Fahrenheit). The Chandrayaan-1 -- Chandrayaan means "moon ...

NASA hasn't given up on Lunar Trailblazer yet. More than two months have passed since that rather dire assessment, but NASA is still working to revive the orbiter — and it will keep doing so for ...