Destination Moon' follows a real-life astronaut mission that ended tragically — and the lessons learned for future Apollo ...
Hakuto-r captures a rare “terrestrial sunrise” during a total eclipse just before crashing into the Moon, revealing the ...
After failing to nail a lunar landing in 2023, ispace is once again vying to become the first commercial company in Japan to successfully perform a soft landing on the moon. It’s also set to deploy ...
We’ve all seen pictures of the Apollo 17 astronauts walking on the Moon in 1972. And while some people still refuse to believe this happened, NASA is setting its sights on the Moon again. Starting in ...
(CNN) — Nearly five months ago, a SpaceX rocket launched out of Florida carrying two lunar landers. The Blue Ghost spacecraft, from Texas-based Firefly Aerospace, zoomed to the moon, and in March it ...
A robotic lander developed by a Japanese company named ispace plummeted to the Moon’s surface Thursday, destroying a small rover and several experiments intended to demonstrate how future missions ...
Update: Sadly, the spacecraft crashed into the Moon. Our original story follows below. A Japanese aerospace firm called Ispace is set to put a spacecraft on the Moon this week. Resilience, the star of ...
Successful launches are helping Jeff Bezos’ company set up missions to ferry cargo—and eventually astronauts—to the lunar ...
The coming week is a very important one for the European space exploration efforts, as the continent's first Moon rover will finally have to chance to roam the deserted, regolith-covered surface of ...
Find the locations of the five landing zones considered as the setting for humanity's first steps on another world. On July 20, 1969, Apollo 11 astronaut Neil Armstrong announced his historic arrival ...
Unlike previous missions, Chandrayaan-4 aims to land on the lunar south pole, use an advanced robotic system to collect 2kg ...
Later today, a Japanese company will be attempting a feat which few have achieved successfully: it will try to gently touch down its Resilience lander on the moon’s surface as part of its Hakuto-R ...