NASA has granted mission extensions to eight different planetary missions, citing the continued excellent operations of the spacecraft, but more…
Images taken by the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) show where the Chang'e-5 mission landed. The samples obtained by this lander…
This may be one of the strangest craters you’ll ever see. Ryder crater is located near the south pole of…
Using LRO data, the ESA recently created a map of water ice on the Moon, which will aid in future…
Thanks to an amateur tracker, the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera team found the lunar impact site of China's Longjiang-2 satellite.
This image of the lunar highlands is from NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter. You'd need superhuman eyesight to spot it, but…
According to a new analysis of LRO and MESSENGER data, the ice deposits on the Moon and Mercury could be…
The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter recently spotted a boulder that had rolled downhill inside the Antoniadi crater, very nearly landing in…
It's always easier to show someone a picture of something rather than to use 1,000 words to explain it. The…
A new study of the current rate of meteoroid impacts on the Moon suggests that those iconic astronaut boot prints…