In a rare cosmic alignment, NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter(LRO) successfully captured images of South Korea’s Danuri lunar orbiter as the two spacecraft zipped past each other in lunar orbit. The ...

NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) has studied the moon up close since its launch in 2009 and continues to do so to this day. When LRO launched, its mission planners intended the mission to ...

With the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) project facing a pivotal decision milestone in May, recent changes intended to reduce the complexity of the mission — and also add some new features to the ...

NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO), launched on June 18 of this year, has begun its extensive exploration of the lunar environment and will return more data about the Moon than any previous ...

[Click the images below to see my favorite pictures from LRO!] Advertisement Bad Astronomy Gallery (click any image to see it full size) LRO over the Moon Today, September 16, 2010, one of NASA's most ...

As NASA prepares for its ambitious return to the Moon with the Artemis III mission, a new study is reshaping how scientists assess seismic risks on the lunar surface. Published in Science Advances, ...

Most lunar craters that we know of date back millions, if not billions, of years, making evidence of a recent impact a rare glimpse into a process that is shaping the Moon today. Scientists identified ...

A powerful NASA probe has created the most detailed view yet of the far side of the moon. NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) took the picture, which was released along with a flood of other ...

NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) launched at 5:32 p.m. EDT Thursday, June 18, aboard an Atlas V rocket from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. The satellite will relay more ...

The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter has been circling our nearest neighbor since 2009, taking amazing high-resolution images of the Moon's surface. When it was first ...