In the early hours of March 2, Blue Ghost fired its engine to drop it out of orbit, falling toward the moon. Just over an hour later, it was on the surface in Mare Crisium, a lava plain inside an ...

Moon rocks with unique dust ... we can deduce to what extent and in which direction the sunlight is reflected by these large rocks." The images were taken by NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter ...

NASA released the beautifully detailed images on the sixth day of Orion’s 25.5-day journey and they show moon’s mysterious surface and its craters frozen in time.

At the request of the Biden administration, the moon rock had been on display since Jan. 20, 2021 in the Oval Office as a way ...

A moon rock signifying NASA's lunar ambitions had adorned Joe Biden's Oval Office throughout his entire presidential administration. But, since President Donald Trump took office in January, the ...

Once in a blue moon might be more common than we thought. New images show that our moon is way more colorful than just shades of gray. Instead, the orbital rock was observed to show tints of both ...

Moon rocks reveal hidden lunar history ... Higher-resolution orbital images have revealed plenty of large impact craters that seem far older than 3.9 billion years, for example.

The moon is almost completely covered in dust. Unlike on Earth, this dust is not smoothed by wind and weather, but is sharp-edged and also electrostatically charged. This dust has been studied ...

Nasa is building a JCB to excavate Moon rocks. See pics here Drew Smith, a robotics engineer, makes adjustments to the Regolith Advanced Surface Systems Operations Robot (RASSOR) during testing.

Spotting a tiny moon The first space rock, asteroid 2011 UL21, passed by Earth on June 27 at a distance of 4.1 million miles (6.6 million kilometers), or 17 times the distance between Earth and ...

At the request of the Biden administration, the moon rock had been on display since Jan. 20, 2021 in the Oval Office as a way to recognize not only NASA's past lunar achievements but also its ...