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 ...

More than five decades after the last Apollo crew left the lunar surface, the boot prints they pressed into the regolith ...

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 ...

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 ...

Scientists firing lasers at NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter have finally hit a tiny reflective panel on the spacecraft after attempting to nail the mark for roughly a decade. The reflector is part ...

Before Apollo astronauts set foot upon the moon, much remained unknown about the lunar surface. While most scientists believed the moon had a solid surface that would support astronauts and their ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Intrepid Museum's largest temporary exhibition, "Apollo: When We Went to the Moon" is staged under the display of the ...

American flags planted on the moon over fifty years ago have likely lost their colour. Intense solar radiation and extreme temperature swings on the moon have degraded the fabric. While the flags may ...

A mission control screen simulation of the Chang'e-6 orbiter (left) and ascent vehicle docked in lunar orbit, June 6, 2024. Credit: Screenshot/CNSA HELSINKI — An ascent vehicle docked with the Chang’e ...