Athena lander dies after toppling near the moon's south pole
A day after a live webcast captured a somber-looking mission control room in the minutes surrounding its planned Thursday ...
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Dead Athena moon lander seen inside its crater grave from lunar orbit (photos)
This orientation prevented the lander's solar panels from capturing enough sunlight, and Intuitive Machines declared Athena ...
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The new golden age of Moon exploration
During the Cold War, the U.S. and USSR raced to be first to send robotic and human explorers to the Moon, traversing lunar ...
Moon lander digs up major data not collected since Apollo astronauts
LISTER, mounted below Blue Ghost’s lower deck, measures the flow of heat from the moon's interior with a sophisticated ...
Mysterious Mars moon captured in unprecedented images by space probe
A space probe named Hera captured images of Mars' small Deimos moon while on a mission to examine an asteroid.
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Hera asteroid mission takes stunning images of Mars’s moon Deimos
A mission to survey the results of a deliberate crash between an asteroid and a NASA spacecraft has taken stunning images of ...
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Tiny Mars moon Deimos gets a rare close-up, thanks to Europe's Hera asteroid probe (photos)
Europe's HERA mission has taken a good look at Mars and its moon Deimos on its way to explore the aftermath of the DART ...