Here's why the astronauts have brushed up on lunar geology, even though they won't land.

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. The ispace Resilience lunar lander crash on June 5, 2025 created a dark smudge surrounded by a ...

NASA has finally given up on Lunar Trailblazer. The $94 million Lunar Trailblazer mission aimed to map the moon's water stores from orbit, which would have helped NASA gain a better understanding of ...

The same AI methods that power ChatGPT can now allow you to talk to the Moon Its good to be skeptical when applying ...

A picture is worth a thousand words. Or, in this case, $504 million. At least, that’s what it cost to build the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO), NASA’s robotic spacecraft that is currently orbiting ...

On 23 August 1966, NASA captured the first photograph of the Earth as seen from a lunar orbit by its unmanned Lunar Orbiter 1 probe. This spacecraft had been launched on 10 August 1966 with a very ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. This model of the Lunar Orbiter was ...

You’re probably familiar with the Mona Lisa portrait painted by Italian artist Leonardo da Vinci in the early 1500s. Well now, hundreds of years later, Mona Lisa has made it to space as part of the ...

Details about the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) power-system design. How power density was increased in radiation-hardened computer hardware. The NASA LRO Power System Electronics (PSE) ...