July 20, International Moon Day, marked the 53rd anniversary of the Apollo 11 Moon landing. To celebrate, NASA released a video that revisits the mission’s landing point on the Moon to reveal the ...

Moffett Field, California – The Lunar Orbiter Image Recovery Project (LOIRP) is seeking support from the public as it continues its efforts to recover and enhance Moon images from the 1960s using ...

Recent photos taken by India’s Space Research Organization moon orbiter, known as Chandrayaan 2, clearly show the Apollo 11 and Apollo 12 landing sites more than 50 years later. The photos were taken ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. This image from NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera shows China’s Chang'e 6 lander in the Apollo basin on the lunar far ...

NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter has confirmed a fresh crater 728 feet wide on the Moon’s eastern edge, one that did not ...

Back in 1970, the Apollo 13 mission was meant to be the third in the program to land on the Moon. Due to a failure of an oxygen tank in the service module, the landing was aborted, and the crew of 3 ...

Here, scientists at the Goddard Geophysical and Astronomical Observatory use the visible, green wavelength of light to shoot lasers at the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter. The laser facility at the ...

On August 10, 1966, Lunar Orbiter 1 blasted off from Cape Canaveral, Florida, on a mission to begin a massive photographic survey of the lunar surface. Four days later, it became the first U.S.

Apollo 13 is the lunar landing mission that never was. Launched in 1970, the mission's astronauts had to abandon plans to land on the Moon just 56 hours into flight, after an oxygen tank on the ...