A space probe named Hera captured images of Mars' small Deimos moon while on a mission to examine an asteroid.

Mining the moon for water, helium-3, and rare earth elements could become a multibillion-dollar industry in the near future, but astronomers warn it risks coming at the expense of scientific discovery ...

It will be the first commercially-built probe to fly beyond the moon, heading for an asteroid flyby to look for potentially valuable mineral deposits. During the Lunar Trailblazer's two-year ...

Since its landing on the moon in 2019, the spacecraft has been taking hundreds of photos of impact craters and extracting ...

One, the Lunar Thermal Mapper (LTM), was designed to map the surface temperature of the moon using infrared light, which could help it map mineral distribution on the lunar surface. You may like ...