If all goes according to plan, the Athena lander will touch down near the moon's south pole on or around March 6.

The NASA Lunar Trailblazer orbiter was carried by a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, which lifted off from Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral. The Lunar Trailblazer spacecraft was built by aerospace ...

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifted off from the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral carrying NASA's Lunar Trailblazer orbiter. The Lunar Trailblazer spacecraft was built by Lockheed Martin's space ...

Trailblazer appears to be spinning and out of contact with engineers back on Earth. In an update published on Tuesday evening, the space agency acknowledged that a mission operations team at the ...

It is also working with NASA's Deep Space Network and ground-based observatories to gather data on the lost satellite. The Lunar Trailblazer's mission is to spend six months floating to the moon ...

Lunar Trailblazer flight controllers are using NASA's Deep Space Network, along with ground-based observatories, to better understand the spacecraft’s orientation in space. But the spacecraft's ...

NASA said late March 4 that spacecraft controllers were continuing efforts to reestablish communications with the Lunar Trailblazer spacecraft ... launch of the Space Launch System in November ...

A dishwasher-sized NASA satellite was launched into space from Florida on Wednesday to identify where water - a precious resource for lunar missions - resides on the moon's surface in places such as ...