Scientists are set to launch a spacecraft this week to map water on the Moon, which could help future efforts to colonise its ...

On Wednesday 26 February, a thermal imaging camera blasted off to the Moon as part of NASA's Lunar Trailblazer mission. This aims to map sources of water on the Moon to shed light on the lunar water ...

The second American spacecraft headed toward a moon landing in as many months is set to launch as soon as Wednesday from ...

NASA’s Lunar Trailblazer is officially in Florida and integrated with a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket in anticipation of its launch into space later this month. The petite satellite is set to launch no ...

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Bottoms of lunar polar craters may harbor ice patches Water will be a vital resource for astronauts on the moon Feb 26 (Reuters) - A dishwasher-sized NASA satellite was launched into space from ...

NASA’s “VIPER” mission to map water concentrations on the moon left its rover spinning at Sandia National Laboratories. Scientists put the ...

Lunar Trailblazer, an orbiter that shared a launch on Wednesday with the commercial Athena lander, will help scientists understand where the moon’s water is, and what form it takes. By Kenneth Chang ...

In February 2024, an American spacecraft landed on the moon for the first time in more than 50 years and ushered in a new era of lunar exploration defined by commercial enterprise. The landing ...

A dishwasher-sized NASA satellite was launched into space from Florida on Wednesday to identify where water — a precious resource for lunar missions — resides on the moon’s surface in places such as ...

On Wednesday 26 February, a thermal imaging camera built by researchers at the University of Oxford’s Department of Physics will blast off to the Moon as part of NASA’s Lunar Trailblazer mission. This ...