Intuitive Machines' Athena moon lander is "alive," but it's not yet known what mission objectives can still be met.

Caption This map of the abundance of the element thorium on the moon was made with data from the Lunar Prospector, a space mission launched in 1998, shows that most of this radioactive element is ...

Success of Blue Ghost marks breakthrough in lunar exploration, a pivotal time for NASA This still image taken from a February 24, 2025 video released by Firefly Aerospace shows Firefly's Blue ...

As for AstroForge's Odin asteroid-mining scout, unfortunately, like the Lunar Trailblazer, Odin has also fallen out of ...

AstroForge’s second robotic spacecraft, called Odin, is bundled into a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket that will also launch a privately built moon lander and a NASA-operated lunar orbiter as soon as ...

NASA deliberately crashed the Lunar Prospector probe onto the moon in 1999. It also contained the mortal remains of the famous scientist who had died in a car accident. Many Navajo also protested ...

The researchers compared their data with that of NASA’s Lunar Prospector mission, which orbited the moon between 1998 and 1999. Study senior author Romain Tartese, an astrophysicist at the ...

AstroForge's commercially developed Odin asteroid prospector was released four minutes after Athena, NASA's Lunar Trailblazer satellite was deployed about 20 seconds after that followed a few ...