After takeoff, Lunar Prospector took 105 hours — about four and a half days — to travel the 240,000 miles (370,000 km) between Earth and the Moon. It slipped into an initial “capture ...

The Lunar Prospector mission came to a creative and daring conclusion when on July 31, 1999 at 2:52:00.8 a.m. PDT Mission Control Ames directed the spacecraft to a crash landing into a deep crater ...

Hundreds of astronomers watched the skies when NASA’s Lunar Prospector probe crashed on the moon — but there was no indication of a “splash.” ...

NASA is pulling the plug on its only planned robotic mission to the Moon’s surface. The space agency has reportedly canceled its Resource Prospector — a small rover that was designed to ...

On July 31, 1999, NASA intentionally crashes the Lunar Prospector spacecraft into the moon with the hopes of discovering evidence of water. Researchers said it didn't reveal any such signs.

the Lunar Prospector spacecraft that orbited the Moon for nearly 19 months gathering data, and then was intentionally crashed in the Moon’s south ...

Lunar Prospector was designed as a means to look for natural resources in situ, as opposed to the current method that implies scans from afar.

NASA recently scrapped plans to fly Resource Prospector, a lunar mining mission in which Kennedy Space Center would have played a prominent role.

Resource Prospector instruments will go forward in an expanded lunar surface campaign,” NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine tweeted. “More landers. More science.

This map of the abundance of the element thorium on the moon was made with data from the Lunar Prospector, a space mission launched in 1998, shows that most of this radioactive element is ...

An influential group of advisers on lunar exploration says NASA is canceling its Resource Prospector mission to explore the moon’s surface in the 2020s — and urged the agency’s newly sworn ...