On Wednesday 26 February, a thermal imaging camera blasted off to the Moon as part of NASA's Lunar Trailblazer mission. This aims to map sources of water on the Moon to shed light on the lunar water ...

The Lunar Trailblazer spacecraft carries a state-of-the-art camera to measure lunar surface temperature and confirm locations ...

This aims to map sources of water on the moon to ... its planned trajectory will use the gravity of the sun, Earth, and moon to guide it to the final orbit—a technique called low-energy transfer.

The former will map the minerals and water on the Moon’s surface—including the ... and its trajectory will then be naturally reshaped by gravity after several lunar flybys and loops around ...

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

Intuitive Machines, a Houston company aiming to repeat a 2024 landing, said its spacecraft, Athena, has power and is communicating but may not be upright. It is unclear how that might impact the ...

Astronomers are ready to search for the fingerprints of life in faraway planetary atmospheres. But first, they need to know ...

The map is expected to throw new light on the ... molten sphere that was eventually captured by the earth’s gravity to become the moon we see today. In those early millennia, the infant moon ...

The first astronauts preparing to fly to the moon in more than 50 years want your help identifying their "moon mascot." ...

Picture: Department of Physics/University of Oxford/PA Scientists are set to launch a spacecraft this week to map water on ... will use the gravity of the Sun, Moon and Earth once it leaves ...

Before arriving at the moon, the small satellite mission will use the gravity of the sun ... producing the best-yet maps of water on the lunar surface. Observations gathered during its two ...