This week, the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) begins a preliminary design review. A process that is sure to reflect the financial stress and strain status of NASA's newly issued budget for ...

As the U.S. and other nations prepare for a new era of space exploration, new research suggests "moonquakes" could pose an ...

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Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera (NACs) on the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera (LROC) will make high-resolution, black-and-white images of the surface, capturing images of the poles with ...

The United States and China aren't the only powerful, wealthy nations in the world, and they're certainly not the only ...

The Firefly Aerospace Blue Ghost lander on the moon was captured by NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter. Credit: Space.com | ...

News: NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter and Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite are set to lift off together aboard an Atlas V rocket on Thursday, June 18, at 5:12 p.m. EDT.

A new paper reveals that ground acceleration from moonquakes, rather than meteor impacts, was responsible for shifting lunar ...

NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter captured an image of a crater on the moon’s surface that’s likely the impact site of Russia’s Luna 25 mission after it crashed.

NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter launched 10 years ago today (June 18, 2009), at a time when NASA was toying with going back to the moon. A decade later, the agency now has a tight deadline of ...

"On June 10, 2011, NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter angled its orbit 65° to the west, allowing the spacecraft's cameras to capture a dramatic sunrise view of the moon's Tycho crater," NASA ...

NASA scientists have discovered over a dozen hidden entrances to underground caves on the Moon, a breakthrough that could ...