Lunar Trailblazer, an orbiter that shared a launch on Wednesday with the commercial Athena lander, will help scientists ...

A dishwasher-sized NASA satellite was launched into space from Florida on Wednesday to identify where water - a precious resource for lunar missions - resides on the moon's surface in places such as ...

On Wednesday 26 February, a thermal imaging camera built by researchers at the University of Oxford's Department of Physics will blast off to the moon as part of NASA's Lunar Trailblazer mission. This ...

Scientists are set to launch a spacecraft this week to map water on the Moon, which could help future efforts to colonise its surface. The Lunar Trailblazer spacecraft, which will launch from Nasa’s ...

NASA’s Lunar Trailblazer will map the Moon’s water, tracking its location, form, and changes. Mission focuses on the Moon’s ...

One is its High-resolution Volatiles and Minerals Moon Mapper, or HVM 3, and the other is its Lunar Thermal Mapper (LTM) infrared multispectral imager. The former will map the minerals and water ...

Several U.S. states from New Mexico through West Virginia will have a good chance at viewing the lunar eclipse on Thursday.

Intuitive Machines designed and will operate the Athena lunar lander on the company's second voyage to the moon's south pole to hunt for water.

Higher latitudes on the moon with slopes facing the poles "are not only scientifically interesting but also pose less ...

This aims to map sources of water on the moon to shed light on the lunar water cycle and to guide future robotic and human missions. Once in orbit, the spacecraft—weighing 200kg and about the ...