Apollo 17, the final crewed lunar landing mission, aimed to collect highland samples crucial for completing the understanding of lunar evolution, unlike previous missions focused on lowland maria.

45 years ago next month, Apollo 17 astronauts Gene Cernan and Harrison Schmitt took three separate hikes and car rides on the lunar surface in the Taurus-Littrow Valley, a low spot tucked between the ...

NASA released this morning some neat new images from the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter of the landing site of Apollo 17. The enhanced photos give the best look yet of the astronauts’ footprint tracks ...

It was 55 years ago this month that humans first set foot on the moon. I’d been excited about this since I saw in our local newspaper a closeup photo of the lunar crater named Alphonsus, captured by ...

Moon Zoo is a citizen science project that utilises internet crowd-sourcing techniques. Moon Zoo users are asked to review high spatial resolution images from the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera ...

It’s blurrier than old MySpace snapshots, but it’s there as expected. The Apollo Lunar Modules and the US flag left behind at the Apollo 17 landing site has been ...

A visual guide to the audacious moon-landing mission design that put SpaceX and NASA in the hot seat — and has experts ...

GREENBELT, Md. — NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, or LRO, has sent back its first images of Apollo lunar landing sites. The agency will release the images Friday, July 17, at noon and hold a ...