Astronomy contributor and lunar expert Robert Reeves looks back on a Texas-sized achievement in Moon exploration.
LISTER, mounted below Blue Ghost’s lower deck, measures the flow of heat from the moon's interior with a sophisticated ...
A lunar lander launched by a private company made a soft landing on the moon Sunday — the first such landing of its kind and major milestone for privatized space missions. Firefly Aerospace’s ...
Hours after the 15-foot-tall robotic spacecraft arrived at the moon’s surface, closer to the lunar ... NASA astronauts to the moon during the Apollo moon landings more than 50 years ago.
The experiment gathered data about naturally occurring currents inside the moon, which provides hints about what the moon is made of down to 700 miles below the surface. A pneumatic drill used ...
A private lunar lander carrying a drill, vacuum and other experiments ... the surface. Also on board: a device for eliminating abrasive lunar dust — a scourge for NASA's long-ago Apollo ...
A private lunar lander carrying a drill, vacuum and other experiments ... the surface. Also on board: a device for eliminating abrasive lunar dust — a scourge for NASA’s long-ago Apollo ...
The mission aims to test lunar surface operations before astronauts return later this decade. The experiments will run ... which posed challenges for Apollo-era astronauts. During its journey ...