The photograph taken by Lunar Orbiter 1 Aug. 23, 1966, of a crescent Earth above the lunar horizon, along with the digitized and enhanced version released Nov. 13, 2008, by the Lunar Orbiter Image ...
NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter captured the crash site for Tokyo-based ispace's Resilience lander on the moon. A private Japanese space company said its moon-landing crash earlier this month ...
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 ...
China's space agency released an amazingly detailed map of the moon this week, marking the best view yet of the lunar surface as seen by a Chinese spacecraft, according to state officials. The new ...
After five months of trying to reestablish contact with the lost NASA Lunar Trailblazer, the agency has released a sad update: the mission is over. NASA launched the Lunar Trailblazer in February 2025 ...
NASA launched a lunar orbiter Wednesday night that will trace the Moon's elusive water cycle. Lunar Trailblazer, a collaboration between NASA, Northern Arizona University, and Lockheed Martin Space, ...
CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. This collection consists of one original print of the first view of the Earth from the vicinity of the Moon, taken by Lunar Orbiter 1 on August 23 ...
The second U.S.-built lunar spacecraft to reach the moon within a week reached the surface near the moon's south pole, but its position isn't clear. Intuitive Machines' IM-2 mission, a part of NASA's ...
A mockup of NASA's Lunar Trailblazer, with the Moon in background. Lockheed Martin Space NASA is not one to let a good spacecraft go to waste. For nearly two weeks, the space agency has been trying to ...
When the moon falls into Earth's shadow Thursday night into Friday (March 13-14), observers will be treated to views of a "blood moon" total lunar eclipse. But given that lunar spacecraft are ...
DARPA (the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency) is looking for a private company to build spacecraft to orbit the moon and search for water. A program solicitation that DARPA released on ...