Blue Ghost will spend the next 16 days in lunar orbit, if all goes to plan. It will conduct additional engine burns to circularize its path around Earth's nearest neighbor, then attempt a landing in ...

The close encounter was "a historic first of its type for a Japanese private, commercial lunar lander," according to ispace.

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 ...

Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost captured some stunning sights on its way to the Moon's Mare Crisium basin.

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 ...

Meet Grace, the brave hopper robot that’s designed to jump into the darkest depths of the Moon, providing never-before-seen ...

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 ...

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 ...

In 1874, James Nasmyth and James Carpenter published a remarkable book: The Moon: Considered ... prominent and relatively young lunar craters, such as Tycho and Copernicus, had formed their ...

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 ...