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 ...

Japan’s space agency announced on Jan. 22 that its lunar probe, which landed on the moon two days earlier, has transmitted flight data and images back to Earth. The Japan Aerospace Exploration ...

The SLIM probe made a near-perfect soft landing on the lunar surface while calculating possible risks from cameras mounted on the spacecraft. At mission control, technicians could only monitor ...

The probe landed in northern China on Tuesday afternoon in the Inner Mongolian region. “I now declare that the Chang’e 6 Lunar Exploration Mission achieved complete success,” Zhang Kejian ...

The Chang’E-5 lunar probe was the third mission by the Chinese space program to achieve successful soft landing on the surface of the moon. News organizations may use or redistribute this image ...

NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter has snapped pictures ... Now, using photographs from NASA's probe, researchers have created a three-dimensional map of these valleys to model the direction ...

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 ...

BEIJING -- China's Chang'e 7 lunar probe, scheduled for launch in 2026, will target the moon's south pole to search for water ice and test cutting-edge technologies critical for sustainable human ...

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 ...

NCU's Deep Space Radiation Probe (DSRP) was aboard the HAKUTO-R Mission 2 lunar lander developed by Japanese space exploration company ispace and launched from Florida at 1:11am on Wednesday last week ...

One probe is from Texas-based Firefly Aerospace Inc. Its so-called Blue Ghost marks Firefly’s first foray into lunar exploration and the company will attempt a landing on the moon in about 45 days.