NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter brakes into its initial orbit with a successful 40-minute rocket firing that sets the stage for commissioning and moon mapping operations. Lunar satellite slips ...

NASA and Arizona State University say they will be sharing with the public high-resolution photographs that will be beamed back from a lunar satellite scheduled to launch at the end of May.

News: NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter and Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite are set to lift off together aboard an Atlas V rocket on Thursday, June 18, at 5:12 p.m. EDT.

NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter has successfully launched aboard an Atlas V rocket from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. The satellite will relay more information about the lunar ...

NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter has snapped its first test images, showing the moon's starkly cratered terrain in preparation for the start of mapping operations. Lunar mapping satellite snaps ...

On June 11, NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) captured a dramatic view of the Hakuto-R Mission 2 impact site on the Moon’s surface, revealing fresh scarring on the lunar terrain. The ...

The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) has been studying the moon up close since 2009. It has also imaged other active spacecraft on the lunar surface, such as China's Yutu 2 rover, and even other ...

NASA’s next mission to Moon will not merely orbit the gray satellite, but crash two vehicles into its South Pole to hunt for water ice, the space agency said Monday.

The Lunar Crater Remote Observation and Sensing Satellite (LCROSS), which launched with LRO, was intentionally crashed onto the Moon's surface Oct. 9, 2009, while LRO instruments watched.

NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter ... this image of North and South America at night is a composite assembled from data acquired by the Suomi NPP satellite in April and October 2012. ...

Russia's failed Luna-25 mission has left a new crater on the moon, NASA satellite images suggest. Luna-25 was Russia's first moon mission since 1976. But after spinning into an uncontrolled orbit ...