"When we consider craters at or above a threshold diameter of 1 km, we estimate an upper limit of craters with asteroid ...

NASA’s nearly complete yet canceled lunar rover VIPER isn’t going to get carried to the moon by a private space exploration company—but it’s also not quite dead yet ...

Indeed, data from NASA's Lunar Prospector mission revealed the lunar nearside contains up to 10 times more thorium than lunar farside. Four hemispheric views of the moon constructed from images ...

Japan’s Kaguya lunar orbiter and Nasa’s Lunar Prospector spacecraft. This established that the larger craters, with their greater dielectric material, were indeed richer in metals. This ...

These results align with data sent by the lunar probe Lunar Prospector, launched by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) in 1998. Lunar Prospector estimated the ice content in ...

In other words, it would act literally like a lunar prospector. The paper describes how the company would be happy to share its data with NASA and the planetary science community and suggests a ...

NASA lost contact with its Lunar Trailblazer satellite shortly after launch, and AstroForge ran into problems commanding its Odin prospector probe. Both payloads are likely lost, officials say.

With two commercial moon landers already on their way, Houston-based Intuitive Machines launched its second robotic lander atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket Wednesday, the centerpiece of a multi ...

Although Lunar Prospector was quickly snuffed out in a shadowy crater, it ignited a search for the building blocks of life on our celestial neighbor for years to come. Its 18-month voyage to Earth ...

On July 31, 1999, NASA crashed the Lunar Prospector spacecraft into the Moon to ends its successful mission to detect frozen water on the lunar surface. The Lunar Prospector was launched in ...

NASA’s VIPER spacecraft, designed to search the lunar regolith for water ice and ... by NASA’s sudden cancellation of the Resource Prospector mission in 2018, a program designed to follow ...