In this historic photo from the U.S. space agency, the fully assembled Lunar Prospector spacecraft is shown in January 1997, mated atop the Star 37 Trans Lunar Injection module. Lunar Prospector ...

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 ...

The space agency has reportedly canceled its Resource Prospector — a small rover that was designed to excavate materials such as hydrogen, oxygen, and water from the lunar poles. The move has ...

There were no survivors. In 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 ...

VIPER, about the size of a golf cart, would have prospected the lunar south pole for water ice in the soil with the aim of creating resource maps for future missions to the Moon. The craft would have ...

A prototype for the Resource Prospector rover undergoes field testing. (NASA via YouTube) An influential group of advisers on lunar exploration says NASA is canceling its Resource Prospector ...

Hundreds of astronomers were watching the skies when NASA’s Lunar Prospector probe crashed on the moon early Saturday. They were hoping for a sign of water vapor when the 354-pound spacecraft ...

APL's David Lawrence, Patrick Peplowski and Jack Wilson, along with Rick Elphic from NASA Ames Research Center, used orbital neutron data from the Lunar Prospector mission to build their map.

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 ...

In 1998, NASA's Lunar Prospector mission launched with a small capsule containing the ashes of Eugene Shoemaker, a pioneer in planetary geology. NASA intentionally crashed the spacecraft into the ...

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 ...