New images released by NASA have revealed an ambitious spacecraft's landing site during its recent mission to the lunar ...

Landing safely on the surface of another planetary body, like the Moon or Mars, is one of the most important milestones of any given space mission. From the very beginning, NASA's Langley Research ...

First full-disk photo: The first photograph of the full-disk of Earth was taken on May 30, 1966 by the Soviet Molniya 1-3 satellite. ATS-1 captures Earth: Shortly after Soviet Molniya clicked the ...

NASA's LRO (Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter) imaged Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost Mission 1 lunar lander on the Moon's surface ...

India’s 2008 Chandrayaan-1 lunar orbiter provided convincing evidence of water ice on the Moon. A lunar landing attempt in 2019 failed, but in August 2023, the Vikram lander successfully touched ...

For NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO), which has been orbiting the moon since 2009, it will be time to batten down the hatches. "LRO's science instruments and some components not needed by ...

The Blue Ghost lunar lander, operated by Firefly Aerospace from Texas, became the first commercial spacecraft to image an ...

For NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO), which has been orbiting ... The duration of totality will be longer than normal, lasting 1 hour and 6 minutes. On March 13-14, 2025, a total lunar ...