When astronauts set off for a trip around the Moon in 2024 with NASA’s Artemis II mission, they will go primed with knowledge of lunar landmarks gathered by one of the Agency’s premiere robotic ...

NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) spacecraft has far exceeded its planned mission duration, revealing that the Moon holds surprises: ice deposits that could be used to support future lunar ...

International Observe the Moon Night is this weekend, and here are five ways to celebrate, regardless of where you are or the weather conditions occurring across your sky. Back in 2009, NASA sent two ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. An award-winning reporter writing about stargazing and the night sky. The Mare Tranquillitatis pit as seen by NASA's Lunar ...

Apollo lunar samples show how space weathering alters the Moon’s surface over time, affecting ultraviolet light reflection and interpretation of Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter data.

Artificial intelligence is transforming the way we explore the Moon. In a recent SETI Live, authors Adam Lesnikowski and Daniel Angerhausen, hosted by Franck Marchis, a Senior Planetary Astronomer at ...

Details about the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) power-system design. How power density was increased in radiation-hardened computer hardware. The NASA LRO Power System Electronics (PSE) ...

As humanity sets its sights on the Moon once more, scientists are considering how people could live on the lunar surface. The solution might be not to live on the surface at all—an international team ...

NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) has been floating around the moon for almost five years. To celebrate LRO's fifth anniversary, NASA has pulled five of the best images created with LRO data ...