NASA has officially chosen three new scientific instruments to study the moon, specifically its south polar region, as part of the upcoming Artemis mission. Two of these instruments will be mounted on ...

NASA is gearing up for a bold new era of lunar exploration with three advanced instruments set to investigate the Moon’s ...

NASA is gearing up for an exciting chapter in lunar exploration by sending a trio of high-tech instruments to the Moon. Two ...

Lunar Trailblazer, an orbiter that shared a launch on Wednesday with the commercial Athena lander, will help scientists understand where the moon’s water is, and what form it takes.

NASA has developed a process that creates more accurate solar eclipse maps, the agency recently announced — and the shadow cast by the moon in the new, better maps might not look quite as you ...

Since June 2009, NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter has been circling the moon, compiling data for the first full topographic map of its surface. The data implies that 3.9 billion years ago ...

Why the moon looks like a potato on NASA’s new eclipse maps The newer mapping method takes elevation on Earth and the moon’s topography into consideration.

A dishwasher-sized NASA satellite was launched into space from Florida on Wednesday to identify places on the moon's surface where water exists — for example, in the permanently shadowed craters ...

NASA has been asked to create a time zone for the moon. Here's how it would work A new lunar time zone is all about ensuring the success of future, multinational missions to the moon.

NASA test drove the mini autonomous rovers that will soon fly to the moon and collectively map the lunar surface.

On April 26, NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, a robotic spacecraft that orbits the moon and has cameras that have provided topographic maps of the lunar surface, captured 10 images around the ...

NASA revealed the first detailed map of water on the moon with data from the now-retired SOFIA airborne observatory.