At an international workshop this week about where NASA’s next Mars rover should land, most of the information comes from a prolific spacecraft that’s been orbiting Mars since 2006. Observations by ...

NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter has spotted the tipped-over Odysseus lander on the surface of the moon, officials said Monday, confirming it touched down less than a mile from its planned landing ...

NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) has taken its first look at China's Chang'e 6 spacecraft on the moon's far side. The Chang'e 6 lander is flanked by two craters similar in size to it and is ...

The spacecraft that has quietly rewritten our understanding of Mars just crossed a very visible milestone: the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has captured its 100,000th close-up view of the Red Planet.

Mars 3 holds a strange place in space history: it was the first spacecraft to soft-land on Mars, yet its triumph lasted just ...

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The fate of Russia's failed Luna 25 Moon landing mission has been confirmed after NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) found a new impact crater at the estimated position of the lander's crash ...

India's Chandrayaan-3 lander is in the center of the square inside the white halo. India’s historic Chandrayaan-3 mission has already had a huge impact back on Earth. The world celebrated as India ...

A new crater has appeared on the moon, and it was likely created when Russia’s uncrewed Luna 25 mission crashed into the lunar surface. Images taken by NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter and released ...

"The increased brightness of the terrain surrounding the lander is due to disturbance from the lander engine and is similar to the blast zone seen around other lunar landers." When you purchase ...