The lunar-crashing secondary payload that will share an Atlas 5 launcher with NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, has entered comprehensive performance testing about a month ahead of schedule. That ...

MOFFETT FIELD, Calif. — Preliminary data from NASA’s Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite, or LCROSS, indicates the mission successfully uncovered water in a permanently shadowed lunar ...

NASA’s Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite, or LCROSS, created twin impacts on the Moon’s surface early Friday in a search for water ice. Scientists will analyze data from the spacecraft’s ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. NASA's LCROSS probe and its spent Centaur rocket stage purposely crashed into the large crater ...

NASA's Lunar Prospector first detected some hydrogen signatures in craters on the dark side of the moon in 1999. Ever since, researchers have been keen to confirm the presence of water on the moon.

REDONDO BEACH, Calif., Oct. 6, 2010 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Northrop Grumman Corporation (NYSE:NOC) and NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, Calif. team members who built NASA's Lunar Crater ...

NASA's Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite, or LCROSS, created twin impacts on the moon's surface early Friday in a search for water ice. Scientists will analyze data from the spacecraft's ...

The big screen at NASA Ames’ Exploration Center in Mountain View showed the launch team in Florida in front of computers. “Propulsion. Go… Engine shield. Go … Flight control. Go.” A few minutes before ...

NASA looking to see if there is ice mixed in the soil of crater's floor. Oct. 8, 2009 — -- By Friday morning, we can expect that any aliens on the moon will be really ticked off at us. But if ...

As was previously reported by GeekDad writer Lonnie Morgan in Crashing Into the Moon for Science, and earlier this morning by Dana Bostic in Ways to See the LCROSS Crash on Friday Morning, NASA’s ...

The argument that the moon is a dry, desolate place no longer holds water. Preliminary data from the Lunar CRater Observation and Sensing Satellite, or LCROSS, indicates that the mission successfully ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. The lunar-crashingsecondary payload that will share an Atlas 5 launcher with NASA's ...