NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) snapped a perfectly timed photo as it crossed paths with another spacecraft orbiting the moon. The LRO, which has been orbiting the moon for 15 years ...

The NASA-owned Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) recently captured an image of a "mysterious" object moving near the Moon at over 2 miles per second. Accomplishing this feat was challenging ...

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has captured incredibly sharp images of the Horsehead Nebula, one of the most iconic ...

NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter spotted a bizarre sliver of an ... It turns out that the LRO's image was photobombed by the Korea Aerospace Research Institute's Korea Pathfinder Lunar Orbiter ...

In the fall of 2011, the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) mission released its original Tour of the Moon, a five-minute animation that takes the viewer on a virtual tour of our nearest neighbor ...

To do so, Fassett and team used two data sources. The Miniature Radio Frequency instrument on the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) observes the moon at radar wavelengths to search for subsurface ...

Since June 2009, NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) has been orbiting the Moon, using a wide-angle camera to digitally record its cratered surface. Using a total of 70,000 images, researchers ...

To narrow down the candidate sites, a team of scientists and engineers used data from a NASA spacecraft currently flying around the Moon known as the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO), along with ...

Before astronauts can set foot at the lunar South Pole, NASA has to decide where they’re going. To that end, the agency ...

Some dark craters on the Moon are never exposed to light − ice could be hiding in these permanently shadowed regions, and India’s Chandrayaan-3 mission marked a big step toward finding it ...

Back in 2009, NASA sent two robotic spacecraft to the Moon — the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) and the Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite (LCROSS). Both would go on to ...