Kuninaka tried not to let it show, but he was gloomy because the solar panels on the probe were not operating properly. The SLIM probe made a near-perfect soft landing on the lunar surface while ...

The probe is outfitted with two deployable solar arrays. Related: Private Athena moon lander arrives in Florida ahead of SpaceX launch on Feb. 26 Lunar Trailblazer instruments will peer into the ...

NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory described the complicated maneuver that will get the Trailblazer in a position to reach ...

There's a lot less sky and a lot more moon in view for Firefly Aerospace's "Ghost Riders in the Sky" mission.

on Monday morning carrying a NASA probe designed to explore Jupiter’s icy moon Europa ... With its twin solar panels still folded up tight, the probe resembled a cube. “Please say goodbye ...

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 ...

If sunlight hits the solar cells from the west as the moon orbits the Earth, SLIM may “wake up,” the agency said. “We are keeping our hopes up that sunlight will hit the probe to restart it ...

Two eclipses will occur in the next few weeks—a lunar eclipse in the early hours of Monday, March 25, and a solar eclipse on Monday, April 8. Although they are very different phenomena ...

NASA's Lunar Trailblazer probe has made it to Florida's Cape Canaveral to prep for its launch to the moon, which could occur as soon as Feb. 26.

The probe is outfitted with two deployable solar arrays. Lunar Trailblazer instruments will peer into the moon's permanently shadowed regions to spot micro-cold traps less than a football field in ...