A California spacecraft, bound for deliberate doom inside a crater on the moon, is scheduled to soar into space today, along with a lunar orbitersearching for safe landing sites where humans might one ...

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 ...

Jennifer Heldmann heads the LCROSS observing campaign. "We would like to have as many eyes and instruments watching the impact as possible because this is the way we'll get the most data and the most ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

NASA’s Lunar CRater Observation and Sensing Satellite (LCROSS) impacted the Moon’s crater Cabeus, near the south pole, early Friday morning to determine if the permanently shadowed crater might be ...

A navigation glitch that caused NASA’s Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite (LCROSS) to consume more than half of its propellent over the weekend should not prevent the novel spacecraft from ...

Picture of the moon centering Nasa's intended impact site for LCROSS. The dark ring is the 25-arcsec field lens holder for the Altair adaptive optics system. Observers will be able to use any bright ...

Nasa's hopes of filming a spectacular crash on the moon were dashed today when satellite and telescope imagery failed to record the enormous plume of rock and dust that scientists had predicted. The ...

The lunar-crashingsecondary payload that will share an Atlas 5 launcher with NASA's LunarReconnaissance Orbiter has entered comprehensive performance testing about amonth ahead of schedule. That ...