For centuries, the true nature of the Moon’s core remained an open question. Was it entirely molten, like the early Earth, or ...

To figure it out once and for all, Briaud and his colleagues collected data from space missions and lunar laser-ranging experiments to compile a profile of various lunar characteristics. These include ...

After landing on the Moon with NASA science and technology demonstrations March 2, Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost Mission 1 ...

That dual instrument, known as Prime-1 (Polar Resources Ice Mining Experiment ... laser light back at any orbiting or incoming spacecraft – a vital capability to determine the locations of lunar ...

It's official, there are now three lunar ... is the Laser Retroreflector Array (LRA), a collection of eight retroreflectors that will be used to perform something called laser ranging.

The two moon landings this week are part of NASA’s commercial lunar delivery program meant to get experiments to the ... until the final approach when the laser navigation system began acting ...