NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory described the complicated maneuver that will get the Trailblazer in a position to reach ...
The space station and one other Easter egg — the site of NASA's next human moon landing — are hidden in this lucky photo.
A canyon is a deep, narrow valley with steep sides. Here on Earth, canyons are typically formed by long-term erosion from ...
As NASA astronauts aim for landings in 2027, geologists find surprises in recently retrieved samples from the far ...
Scientists have long thought that the South Pole-Aitken basin was formed by a shallow-angle impact, but new research suggests ...
Andrew James McCarthy, frames the space station with Shackleton Crater, a famous landmark on the moon near its south pole.
In partnership with NASA, the Intuitive Machines lander Athena will send a water-seeking drill, a pogo-sticking crater probe ...
The Lunar Trailblazer satellite will depart at the end of the month on a mission to find and map water on the surface of the ...
Meet Grace, the brave hopper robot that’s designed to jump into the darkest depths of the Moon, providing never-before-seen views of permanently shadowed craters near the lunar south pole.
India's Chandrayaan-3 mission achieved a historic soft landing on the Moon's South Pole on August 23, 2023. ISRO's study ...
A SpaceX launch later this month will send a new type of lunar explorer to the moon. IM-2 ... carry payloads of its own — for example, high-resolution optical and thermal cameras, which ...