A Soviet Union lunar rover discovered last month on the moon’s surface might still prove useful nearly four decades after scientists lost track of it, with physicists announcing that the rover’s ...

NASA scientists have been firing a laser beam at a reflector on the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) for the last decade, and recently they received a signal back for the first time. This is the ...

Dozens of times over the last decade NASA scientists have launched laser beams at a reflector the size of a paperback novel about 240,000 miles (385,000 kilometers) away from Earth. They announced ...

Here, scientists at the Goddard Geophysical and Astronomical Observatory use the visible, green wavelength of light to shoot lasers at the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter. The laser facility at the ...

Over the past decade, scientists at NASA have regularly launched laser beams at a reflector on the surface of the Moon about the size of a paperback novel, 385,000 km from Earth. In a collaboration ...

Scientists firing lasers at NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter have finally hit a tiny reflective panel on the spacecraft after attempting to nail the mark for roughly a decade. The reflector is part ...

The reflector would be used for laser range-finding observations by spacecraft orbiting the Moon. Credit: ispace Ispace’s European subsidiary and the Italian Space Agency plan to deploy a laser ...