Scientists estimate the asteroid that produced these canyons about 3.8 billion years ago was 15 miles across. CAPE CANAVERAL, ...

Recent photos taken by India’s Space Research Organization moon orbiter, known as Chandrayaan 2, clearly show the Apollo 11 and Apollo 12 landing sites more than 50 years later. The photos were ...

Recent photos taken by India’s Space Research Organization moon orbiter, known as Chandrayaan 2, clearly show the Apollo 11 and Apollo 12 landing sites more than 50 years later. The photos were taken ...

Abstract: The Lunar Orbiter is an unmanned lunar reconnaissance satellite which takes high-resolution photographs of large areas of the lunar surface to assist in selecting a landing site for Apollo.

New research shows that when an asteroid slammed into the Moon billions of years ago, it carved out a pair of grand canyons ...

We always have it on our list to learn more about Orbiter. If you haven’t seen it, it is a hyperrealistic space simulator. Granted, you can put it in an easy mode, but its real strength is you ...

All the goals for the program were achieved, and the images sent back were key to helping plan for the Apollo landings. Lunar Orbiter 1 also managed to return the first picture of Earth from the ...

at least three other flags survived life on the moon — American flags planted by Apollo 12, 16, and 17 are all still standing ...

 Amateur astronomer Marty McGuire used the Orbiter High-Resolution Camera (OHRC) processed the images captured by the ...