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 ...

Scientists say America is no longer the only place with a Grand Canyon as NASA spots two enormous chasms carved into the lunar surface.

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 ...

While in lunar orbit ... to the moon until it comes in to attempt a landing on March 2. Landing on the moon remains tricky due to its uneven surface, with many boulders and craters.

Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost lunar lander is now headed for the moon after firing its engines to send it out of Earth orbit. Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost lunar lander is now headed for the ...

For most of history, the Moon was regarded as a mysterious and powerful object. Then scientists made it into a destination ...

Athena mission to deploy 'Gracie' hopper for lunar crater exploration Launch scheduled from Florida's Space Coast on February 26 'Gracie' aims to explore shadowed lunar craters near the south pole ...

Per Firefly Aerospace, Blue Ghost performed a successful trans-lunar injection burn to escape Earth's orbit and officially began making its way to the moon ... at the Atlas crater in Mare Frigoris ...

A closer view of the same topographic model shown in the map figure below. This is a synthetic view based on real-world data called a colored hillshade, i.e., elevation data that has been color-coded ...

Meet Grace, the brave hopper robot that’s designed to jump into the darkest depths of the Moon, providing never-before-seen views of permanently shadowed craters near the lunar south pole.