A laser navigating tool doomed a Japanese company’s lunar lander earlier this month, causing it to crash into the moon.

The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera (LROC) has captured dramatic landscapes of the Moon since it was first launched in 2009. A New Moon Rises showcased those breathtaking images from Apollo ...

The Indian lunar orbiter Chandrayaan-2 took new photos showing the exact locations where the lunar modules of the Apollo 11 and 12 missions landed. The images went viral on social media. O post ...

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.

In 2023, South Korea’s Danuri lunar orbiter captured images of the Apollo 11 and 17 sites, confirming the presence of human-made artifacts. While the resolution was not as good, it was still ...

Scientists firing lasers at NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter have finally hit a tiny reflective panel on the spacecraft after attempting to nail the mark for … ...

NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) has captured new images of the far side of the Moon that have revealed the location of a Chinese spacecraft. The images obtained by the LRO on June 7 reveal ...

Equipped with the Orbiter High-Resolution Camera (OHRC), the spacecraft has been diligently surveying the lunar surface, uncovering various features and landmarks. In a notable discovery, amateur ...

Apollo 12 landed on the Moon in the region known as the Ocean of Storms. (Photo: Isro) The Chandrayaan-2 orbiter was used by Isro to find a landing spot for Chandrayaan-3 mission's Vikram landed in ...

While Lunar Orbiter 1 was in many ways eclipsed by the later crewed Apollo missions, the orbiter — and the four subsequent Lunar Orbiter missions — were essential to Apollo’s success.