This orientation prevented the lander's solar panels from capturing enough sunlight, and Intuitive Machines declared Athena ...

The total lunar eclipse on March 13-14 will plunge moon missions into darkness. What will happen to the lunar spacecraft?

NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter captured this shot of Intuitive Machines' Athena lander on the moon on March 7, 2025. | Credit: NASA/GSFC/Arizona State University We now have shots of the ...

NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter captured an exciting view of Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost lander following its recent touchdown on the moon.

The Blue Ghost lunar lander, operated by Firefly Aerospace from Texas, became the first commercial spacecraft to image an ...

The blood moon will make some missions on the moon more challenging because of the loss of sunlight that would otherwise power the solar-powered lunar technology.

In this week’s Degrees of Science we are talking with Dr. Noah Petro, who is a Project Scientist for NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter and for the upcoming Artemis III mission. Dr. Petro ...

Observers on Earth, of course, saw the event as a lunar eclipse. NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter was also flying near the moon during the 2017 total solar eclipse and managed to image the ...

A total lunar eclipse occurs when the Earth passes directly between the moon and the sun, casting its shadow fully over the ...

NASA Solar-powered spacecraft are forced to adjust their operations during a total lunar eclipse due to the extended loss of sunlight.