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. The ...

With the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) project facing a pivotal decision milestone in May, recent changes intended to reduce the complexity of the mission — and also add some new features to the ...

NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO), launched on June 18 of this year, has begun its extensive exploration of the lunar environment and will return more data about the Moon than any previous ...

NASA's back to the Moon adventure is being kick-started by the building of the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter. That probe is the opening volley of spacecraft in response to President George W. Bush's ...

The successful placement of Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost lander on the Moon’s surface has been confirmed by NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter. The private spacecraft, part of NASA’s Commercial ...

NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) launched at 5:32 p.m. EDT Thursday, June 18, aboard an Atlas V rocket from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. The satellite will relay more ...

The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter has been circling our nearest neighbor since 2009, taking amazing high-resolution images of the Moon's surface. When it was first ...