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 ...

NASA's sharp-eyed Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter is gearing up to look down on the Apollo 11 landing site – the location of the first human foray to the moon 40 years ago this month. Along with ...

The Apollo 15 Lunar Module (LM) Falcon set down on the Hadley plains a mere 2 kilometers from Hadley Rille as seen by NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter. This image was released on March 7, 2012.

Four months after the success of Apollo 11, NASA launched Apollo 12 in November 1969. Almost exactly 40 years later, the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter has seen the landing site.

Tracks and equipment left on the moon by astronauts from three of the Apollo missions can be seen in new photos just released by NASA.. Though not close-ups by any stretch of the imagination, the ...

The Apollo 14 landing site as seen by the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter. NASA Launched June 18, the Lunar Reconnaissance orbiter braked into an initially elliptical orbit around the moon on June 23.

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 ...

NASA orbiter sends back photos of astronauts' tracks, trash ... Apollo 17 Commander Eugene Cernan wrote in an email to The Associated Press that the photo gives him a chance to revisit those ...

Lunar Orbiter 3, which took pictures from February 15 to 23 in 1967, confirmed safe landing sites for the Apollo program, returning some of the last pictures taken of the moon before humans put ...

While Lunar Orbiter 1 was a partial success, its sibling, Lunar Orbiter 2 showed us the Moon in a whole new light 55 years ago — and still helps scientists today.

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.