In 1999, the Lunar Prospector orbited the moon, confirming Clementine’s discovery of ice at the lunar poles, a resource that could be crucial for any long-term lunar settlement. The mission's ...

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 ...

"We suggest that the processes which formed the lunar maria several billion years ago are still present and active today." ...

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 ...

A total lunar eclipse, the first in nearly three years, will be visible across the U.S. the night of March 13 into early March 14. This celestial event happens when the Earth is positioned ...

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 ...

Lunar New Year is celebrated in China and in ... She brings prior reporting experience from her work with The Prospector, El Paso Matters, NPR Next Generation Radio, Texas Standard, Borderzine ...