Before Neil Armstrong’s legendary first steps on the Moon in 1969, Nasa had to ensure that the lunar surface was well-mapped ...

BEIJING - Based on research on lunar samples retrieved by Chang'e-6 mission, a team of Chinese scientists confirmed that the ...

Hera spacecraft captured an extraordinary near-infrared image of Mars’ moon Deimos during a flyby of the Red Planet. This marks the first use of Hera’s science instruments, providing a detailed view ...

Europe's HERA mission is aiming to find out how much of an impact a NASA spacecraft made when it deliberately ... The lumpy, 12.5 kilometer-wide moon is the smaller and less well-known of the ...

Aside from capturing images of the slightly misshapen moon, Hera also performed ... performing a detailed, post-impact survey from space. The spacecraft is scheduled for a follow-up maneuver ...

It is unclear how that might impact the mission ... Hours after the 15-foot-tall robotic spacecraft arrived at the moon’s surface, closer to the lunar south pole than any spacecraft has been ...

The sun has set on the Blue Ghost spacecraft ... plain inside an ancient 345-mile-wide impact crater in the northeast quadrant of the near side of the moon. Blue Ghost became the first completely ...

The cameras captured detailed images of the lunar surface, including craters and highland areas, as the spacecraft approached the Moon. The final images showed the impact point and features of the ...

The Chang'e-6 probe was launched from China on May ... a team of Chinese scientists confirmed that the oldest and largest impact crater on the moon, the South Pole-Aitken (SPA) basin, was formed ...

On the way to investigate the scene of a historic asteroid collision, a European spacecraft swung by Mars and captured rare ...

The results of Hera's flyby could ultimately tell us whether Deimos is a captured asteroid or made from debris from a giant impact on Mars ... of Mars' little-seen moon Deimos, which could ...

Still, the spacecraft has performed smoothly on ... NASA Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost lander will touch down in a vast impact basin on the moon's near side, the side that faces Earth, called ...