A Japanese lunar lander called Resilience failed to softly touch down on the moon’s surface on June 5. The spacecraft’s status is currently unknown after Tokyo-based company ispace lost communication ...

Orbiting Laser Power Seen As Lunar Exploration Asset is published in Aerospace Daily & Defense Report, an Aviation Week ...

The company, ispace, is just one of many private-sector firms aiming for the moon and other missions in space.

Pittsburgh-based Astrobotic had an abortive go in January 2024 with its Peregrine lunar lander, which suffered a crippling ...

Elon Musk, who founded SpaceX in 2002, has a bold vision for sending Starship to Mars. Experts weigh in on what's realistic ...

Ispace crashed on the moon in 2023. Its second spacecraft, Resilience, aims in the hours ahead to succeed where its predecessor failed.

China on Thursday launched a space probe on the country's first mission to retrieve samples from an asteroid and bring them ...

Credit: NASA – Public Domain Russia and China have signed a deal to build ... China plans to expand the base further, connecting it to a space station that will orbit the moon. However, the Chinese ...

NASA missions then deftly demonstrated GNSS utility well beyond Earth orbit ... to the moon aboard Blue Ghost Mission 1, a robotic lunar lander built by Firefly Aerospace under NASA’s CLPS program.

Intuitive Machines' second lunar lander has made it to the moon. The Athena lander fired its engines for eight minutes and 12 seconds on Monday (March 3), slowing the spacecraft down and entering ...

A private spacecraft carrying NASA instruments to the surface of the moon in preparation for astronauts to return in the years ahead has reached lunar orbit about a month into its spaceflight.

While in lunar orbit, Firefly’s Blue Ghost lander captured an image of the Moon’s south pole on the far left. Firefly Aerospace The hits from Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost mission to the ...