A NASA Solar Dynamics Observatory and Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter composite image showing an artificially ... solar wind on ...

Chinese researchers analyzed the first-ever soil samples returned from the far side of the moon, but further samples will be needed to verify their findings ...

Credit: Professor HU Sen's Group This estimate is substantially lower than the average water content in the nearside mantle, based upon the study of Apollo-mission samples that suggest a value of ...

The lander was near the intended target site, but a sweep by NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter in the coming ... the successor to Apollo. NASA officials said before the landing that they ...

The efforts will continue through mid-June, when lighting conditions will make it tough for Lunar Trailblazer to ... but NASA is still working to revive the orbiter — and it will keep doing ...

Furthermore, the findings bolster the theory that the moon formed when a giant, Mars -size protoplanet slammed into the young Earth about 4.5 billion years ago and sent a cascade of debris into orbit ...

Only a few past missions, like NASA's GRAIL, have attempted operations in very low orbits around the moon. Credit: NASA Join our newsletter to get the latest military space news every Tuesday by ...

Also, see the NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter view of the lander from moon orbit. Credit: Space.com | Intuitive Machines / NASA/GSFC/Arizona State University | edited by Steve Spaleta Samuel ...

The reconnaissance orbiter, which has been circling Mars since 2006, caught a glimpse of Curiosity on Feb. 28, 2025, along with the tracks the rover left behind. Curiosity rover began its voyage ...