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 ...

The U.S. space agency is focusing on nine areas near the lunar South Pole. This region is important for its diverse ...

This prominent thrust fault is one of thousands discovered on the moon by NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO). These faults resemble small stair-shaped cliffs, or scarps, when seen from the ...

The United States National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) published images and data of the Moon, obtained by the probe of the Lunar Mission Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO), never before ...

LAMP is a SwRI-created, far-UV spectrograph instrument aboard NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO), a robotic mission launched in 2009 to study the surface of the Moon and investigate possible ...

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) was unsuccessfully bouncing laser beams off the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) for over a decade — until today. For the first time ...

The candidate regions were selected by a multidisciplinary team of scientists and engineers, using data from the Lunar ...

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 ...