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

What new technologies or methods can be developed for more efficient in-situ planetary subsurface analyses? This is what a recent study presented at the 56th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...