Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter

The Moon isn’t the most hospitable place, but that’s not stopping NASA from sending humans back there soon. Thankfully, an orbiter has now found a region of the Moon with year-round jeans-and-jacket weather – underground caves.

NASA has confirmed the Moon is a bit messier and a mystery has deepened after its Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) spacecraft discovered the double impact crater of a rocket booster that collided with the lunar surface on March 4, 2022.

The South Pole-Aitken basin on the Moon is the largest impact crater in the solar system, measuring about 2,500 km (1,550 mi) across at its widest point. And now scientists have detected something strange buried under the crater.

NASA has released a stunningly detailed 4K virtual tour of some of the Moon’s most fascinating and important features. Earth’s satellite is the only alien world ever to be visited by a crewed mission, and is likely to be revisited in the coming decades.

​In September 2006, the ESA's first lunar mission, SMART-1, ended when the probe was deliberately crashed into the Moon. The exact location of the craft’s final resting place wasn’t known, but now images from NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) have found the telltale scars of the site.

Analyzing data from NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, researchers have spotted bright areas on our moon which, they say, are likely being caused by frost. If they're right, the frozen water particles could be as old as the solar system itself and could provide clues about ancient water delivery.

Too small to be seen with optical telescopes, NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter and the Indian Space Research Organization's Chandrayaan-1 spacecraft have been located found by ground-based radar stations using a pioneering radar technique that could help in planning future missions to the Moon.

NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) has discovered over 200 deep pits on the Moon that could not only provide scientists with deeper insights into the geology of our largest satellite, but could also be used as sites for future Lunar outposts.

NASA, using images taken from its Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) has released a 680 gigapixel interactive mosaic of the Moon's north polar region with a resolution of one pixel to 6.5 ft (2 m).

NASA has released images and findings from the LRO, which witnessed the GRAIL spacecraft as they struck the Moon.

High art met high tech as NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) received an image of the Mona Lisa via laser.

It’s time to pull out the old red/cyan 3D glasses with high-resolution stereo images of the lunar surface beamed back from NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter being used to create anaglyphs.