NASA’s learned a lot about the Moon since Apollo. But a perfect landing still requires incredible planning and scientific ...

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

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 ...

Seeing the lunar surface as a testbed for later Mars missions, Artemis has grown into a multibillion-dollar effort on the frontline of an emerging global space race, involving dozens of private ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

NASA’s Curiosity rover appears as a dark speck in this contrast-enhanced view captured on February 28, 2025, by the HiRISE camera aboard NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. Trailing Curiosity are the ...

NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter just captured its first image of the Curiosity rover driving along the red planet’s surface. The 2,000-pound Mars rover is shown as a dark speck in the ...

The recently released imagery was taken on Feb. 28 by the High-Resolution Imaging Science Experiment camera aboard the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. In the enhanced image, Curiosity appears as a dark ...