Click to open image viewer. This model of the Lunar Orbiter was an early rendition of what the spacecraft might look like. The actual spacecraft, looking somewhat different, was built in the 1960s and ...

The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) has gathered data that allows us to recreate some of the views that the astronauts on Apollo 13 would have seen as they orbited the moon decades ago in 1970. The ...

Moffett Field, California – The Lunar Orbiter Image Recovery Project (LOIRP) is seeking support from the public as it continues its efforts to recover and enhance Moon images from the 1960s using ...

Image:Apollo 17 Lunar Module Challenger descent stage comes into focus from the new lower 50 km mapping orbit, image width 102 meters. Credit: NASA/GSFC/Arizona State University Larger image ...

The Apollo 15 Lunar Module (LM) Falcon set down on the Hadley plains (26.132°N, 3.634°E) a mere 2 kilometers from Hadley Rille. The goals: sample the basalts that compose the mare deposit, explore a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. This image from NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera shows China’s Chang'e 6 lander in the Apollo basin on the lunar far ...

GREENBELT, Md. -- NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) captured the sharpest images ever taken from space of the Apollo 12, 14 and 17 landing sites. Images show the twists and turns of the paths ...

The paths left on the moon by walking astronauts (single lines) and lunar-buggy tracks (parallel lines) from the Apollo 17 mission in 1972 are visible in an image captured by NASA's Lunar ...

As NASA prepares for its ambitious return to the Moon with the Artemis III mission, a new study is reshaping how scientists assess seismic risks on the lunar surface. Published in Science Advances, ...

Critical science support for NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO), launched today from Cape Canaveral, Florida, will help pave the way for further human and robotic exploration of the Moon. U.S.

Eleven years into its mission, the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) is starting to show its age, but a recent software update promises to give the spacecraft a new lease on life. As NASA's eye in ...