This image shows the Vikram Lander impact point and associated debris field. Green dots indicate spacecraft debris (confirmed or likely). Blue dots locate disturbed soil,…
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Portions of the International Space Station are pictured as the orbiting complex was flying into an orbital sunset. From front to back, are the Tranquility…
The crew of the International Space Station snapped this image of the full Moon on April 30, 2018, as the station orbited off the coast…
Illustration of Lunar IceCube in orbit. Credit: Morehead State University As we venture forward to the Moon and establish a sustained lunar presence, finding and…
Scientists believe the moon formed after a large object crashed into the Earth, but details have been murky about what happened next. Credit: Illustration by…
Shackleton Crater, the floor of which is permanently shadowed from the sun, appears to be home to deposits of water ice. A new study sheds…
The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter captured these views of the Lunar South Pole. Credit: NASA/Scientific Visualization Studio The discovery of ice deposits in craters scattered across…
Artist concept of lunar flashlight. Credit: NASA The space race between the US and Russia ended half a century ago when US astronauts became the…
A permanently shadowed lunar crater. Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center The Moon’s south pole region is home to some of the most extreme environments…
The Moon is shrinking as its interior cools, getting more than about 150 feet (50 meters) skinnier over the last several hundred million years. Just…
View of the Moon. Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center Using an instrument aboard NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO), scientists have observed water molecules moving…
This is an artist’s concept of the tiny moon Hippocamp that was discovered by the Hubble Space Telescope in 2013. Only 20 miles across, it…
Since March 2017, the NELIOTA project has been monitoring the dark side of the Moon for flashes of light caused by tiny pieces of rock…