NASA, for its part, had already spotted the wreckage. About a week after the crash, the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter passed about 50 miles above the landing site, Mare Frigoris — and snapped a photo ...

NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) has imaged the crash site of Resilience, a moon lander built and operated by the ...

A NASA spacecraft around the moon has photographed the crash site of a Japanese company's lunar lander. NASA released the ...

The images of China's sample return spacecraft were captured by NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera (LROC) on June 7. Chang'e-6 landed on the moon on June 1 and when the LROC passed over ...

Once captured in lunar orbit on Dec. 16, he added, the spacecraft will conduct five more maneuvers between Dec. 17 and Dec. 31 to get to its final orbit 100 kilometers from the lunar surface.

A pair of lunar orbiters recently crossed each other’s paths around the Moon, with one flying overhead and capturing an image of the orbiting spacecraft below. The Korea Pathfinder Lunar Orbiter ...

NASA’s lunar orbiter has photographed what’s believed to be the crash site of Russia’s failed Luna-25 mission some 250 miles from its intended landing point. Skip to main content Menu ...

NASA favors the lunar south pole for future astronaut outposts because of evidence of frozen water. South Korea plans to land its own spacecraft on the moon — a robotic probe — by 2030 or so.

In a rare cosmic alignment, NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter(LRO) successfully captured images of South Korea’s Danuri lunar orbiter as the two spacecraft zipped past each other in lunar orbit.

But Lunar Orbiter 1 wasn’t just a step-wise success in the space race — it forged new technological ground and laid the foundation for the U.S. beating the USSR to the Moon with the Apollo ...

The 678-kilogram spacecraft, named Korea Pathfinder Lunar Orbiter (KPLO) or Danuri in Korean, launched on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station’s Launch Complex 40 at ...