Call it the little mirror that could. Nearly 40 years ago, after he became the second man on the moon, astronaut Buzz Aldrin installed a mirror – technically a retroreflector – on the surface of our ...

The Lunar Laser Ranging Experiment from the Apollo 11 mission. Image Credit: NASA There are few moments and pictures from the moon missions that live on in the public eye; Neil Armstrong’s footprint, ...

Using information provided by NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) instrument teams, researchers at the University of California, San Diego, have successfully pinpointed the location of a ...

COLLEGE PARK, Md. -- In 1969, University of Maryland physicist Doug Currie helped design three still-in-use lunar instruments placed on the moon by Apollo 11, 14 and 15. Fifty years later, Currie is ...