The first successfully reached lunar orbit in March 2023 but crashed during its touchdown attempt a month later after getting confused by the rim of a crater. And there's more moon-mission action ...

NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance ... observed on the Moon. For example, backyard astronomy enthusiasts will be familiar with the rays around Tycho and Copernicus craters on the near side of the ...

The biggest and oldest of these scars is a monster crater, one of the largest ... features on the surface of the Moon today. NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter has been circling the Moon since ...

after the larger crater, Mersenius E,' explained Noah Petro, a project scientist for the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera (LROC) mission. LROC is a Nasa craft currently orbiting the moon to map ...

NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter discovered a new crater on the moon that's 33 feet in diameter — as wide as a 3-story building is tall. It could be the crash site of Russia's Luna-25 moon ...

We’ll use this effect for the next section on lunar mountains, but before we do, there are a couple of craters that we’d like to bring to your attention. Actually, the Moon is covered with a ...

Earthshine is the effect you get when you sometimes see the faint dark part of the Moon glowing next to a fully illuminated lunar ... filled crater just south of the mid-point between Copernicus ...

In mid-December, the orbiter ... moon images. The Korea Aerospace Research Institute (KARI) released the images in early January, showcasing the lunar surface – which is pot marked with craters ...

A chunk of space rock that visited near Earth's orbit last year ... smaller asteroids. If a lunar asteroid could be linked to a specific impact crater on the moon, studying it could unveil secrets ...