Lunar Trailblazer is part of a growing list of probes and landers heading toward the moon to search for water ice. LITTLETON, Colorado — A university-led lunar orbiter designed to pinpoint the ...

The probe landed in northern China on Tuesday afternoon in the Inner Mongolian region. “I now declare that the Chang’e 6 Lunar Exploration ... samples will include 2.5 million-year-old ...

22 that its lunar probe, which landed on the moon two days ... built-in battery before JAXA engineers turned off the power at 2:57 a.m. on Jan. 20, about two and a half hours after the landing.

These studies revealed magma activity on the lunar surface around 4.2 billion years ago, lasting for at least 1.4 billion ...

Instead, Hitoshi Kuninaka, head of the Institute of Space and Astronautical Science (ISAS), handled the media at the 2:10 ... The SLIM probe made a near-perfect soft landing on the lunar surface ...

At about 2:57 p.m. Moscow time on August 19, contact with the Luna-25 lunar probe was lost. A Soyuz-2.1b carrier rocket with the Luna-25 automatic station blasted off from the Vostochny spaceport ...

Just last month, NASA launched a small probe called the Lunar Flashlight toward the moon. The small probe was expected to test a new green propellant on its four-month voyage to the moon ...

Illustration showing the Lunar Trailblazer probe on the prowl to probe the abundance and distribution of water on the moon, as well as the lunar water cycle. | Credit: Lockheed Martin LITTLETON ...