The rocket-powered Gracie will conduct five hops during its short lunar stay, including one into the depths of a shadowy crater. A SpaceX launch later this month will send a new type of lunar ...

Meet Grace, the brave hopper robot that’s designed to jump into the darkest depths of the Moon, providing never-before-seen views of permanently shadowed craters near the lunar south pole.

Athena mission to deploy 'Gracie' hopper for lunar crater exploration Launch scheduled from Florida's Space Coast on February 26 'Gracie' aims to explore shadowed lunar craters near the south pole ...

This is Lunar Crater, the state's largest natural crater. Lunar Crater is technically a maar — a low and wide volcanic crater formed by small, ground-level explosive eruptions. Back in 1973 ...

NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory described the complicated maneuver that will get the Trailblazer in a position to reach ...

A study using NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter data found evidence of a more direct impact, creating a rounder crater and distributing deep lunar materials more evenly. This finding could greatly ...

The moon reaches its farthest point from Earth tonight, known as apogee, making it appear ever so slightly smaller in the ...

Along with Blue Ghost, NASA launched the Tenacious lunar rover from Japanese company ispace. It's one of the smallest ...