A pioneering thermal imaging camera built by the University of Oxford is about to launch aboard NASA’s Lunar Trailblazer ...

NASA's Lunar Trailblazer probe could be in trouble. Lunar Trailblazer launched atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 on Feb. 26 alongside Intuitive Machine's Athena moon lander on the IM-2 mission. The 11.5-foot ...

Lunar Trailblazer, an orbiter that shared a launch on Wednesday with the commercial Athena lander, will help scientists understand where the moon’s water is, and what form it takes. By Kenneth ...

On Wednesday 26 February, a thermal imaging camera blasted off to the Moon as part of NASA's Lunar Trailblazer mission. This aims to map sources of water on the Moon to shed light on the lunar water ...

Learn about NASA's Lunar Trailblazer and IM-2, two missions that will soon launch into space to find clues on the presence of water underneath the Moon's surface.

By mapping the moon day and night, the Lunar Trailblazer will be able to detect whether the amount of water changes on this airless body, for instance, by transforming into a gas as the surface ...

raising the still-open question of how water on the lunar surface is replenished. The Lunar Trailblazer could provide answers. NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory described the complicated maneuver ...

NASA's Lunar Trailblazer mission is in jeopardy. It launched on Feb. 27 to send a probe to the moon in search of water. But less than a week after launch, NASA lost track of the spacecraft ...

Lunar Trailblazer is designed to orbit the moon to detect signatures of water ice in reflected light, pinpointing the locales of ice or water trapped in rock on the moon’s surface. Mission ...

A small NASA satellite is on a mission to map lunar water, a key resource for future space exploration. Launched on Wednesday aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, the Lunar Trailblazer orbiter will ...

The Lunar Trailblazer orbiter's launch window opens Feb 26. It's catching a ride with Intuitive Machines IM-2 mission which is landing on the moon near the south pole. Both have instruments for ...