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

It’s remarkable to think that the samples Apollo 16 brought back more than half a century ago still have secrets to reveal ...

In November 1969, Apollo 12’s Pete Conrad and Alan ... s surface with a resolution of 60 meters or better. The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter now takes images (like this one, above, of Tycho ...

which was the landing site for the Apollo 11 mission in 1969. The NASA Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter collected the radar data in 2010 by using wavelengths to detect what was below the surface.

Problems with laser altimeters along with lighting and terrain challenges caused Intuitive Machines’ second lunar lander to ...

A research team led by Prof. Di Kaichang from the Aerospace Information Research Institute (AIR) of the Chinese Academy of ...

These areas were picked using the data from LRO or the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter These parking spots ... on 2009 and has been gathering intel. "Apollo landing sites were in the sort of central ...

The cave is located 250 miles from Apollo 11's landing site in the Mare ... making them ideal for emergency lunar shelters. Lunar orbiters first detected pits on the Moon over a decade ago.

As the Apollo program closed in on its goal ... 15,000 images and detailed height measurements from NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, which has surveyed the entire surface.

The lander's optical navigation system used photos collected by NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) at an altitude of 62 miles (100 kilometers). This LRO imagery "could not accurately ...