The company's Reslience lunar lander will attempt to touch down in Mare Frigoris ("Sea of Cold"), a basalt plain in the ...

SpaceX’s Starship rocket took off with promise but ended in setback once again on Tuesday, as the mammoth launch vehicle lost ...

A lava field can be seen with the Pioneer Mountains in the background on April 29, 2024, at Craters of the Moon National Monument and Preserve near Arco. On May 2, 1924, President Calvin Coolidge ...

The Planet Earth and Moon in Orbit 42179 set measures 9" high, 12.5" long, and 7" wide. It's comprised of 526 pieces and is marketed for ages 10 and older. Technically speaking, this is a ...

NASA astronaut Nichole Ayers, an Expedition 73 crew member aboard the International Space Station, photographed the full "Flower" moon in May 2025. | Credit: NASA/Nichole Ayers The May 2025 full ...

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 ...

Some parts of the moon are more interesting than others ... This instrument will look through the lunar surface to map out the subsurface domain of both the IMPs and lava tubes.

A Soviet spacecraft that's been stuck in low Earth orbit ever since it launched in 1972 has finally crashed back down to our planet. Kosmos 482 rocketed into space more than 50 years ago on a ...

Also, see the NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter view of the lander from moon orbit. Credit: Space.com | Intuitive Machines / NASA/GSFC/Arizona State University | edited by Steve Spaleta Gabbard ...

WHY WILL IT TAKE A MONTH TO LAND ON THE MOON? The spacecraft’s critical lunar orbit insertion was achieved with a nine-minute main thruster burn, the mission’s longest so far, ensuring a stable orbit ...

A third private moon lander is getting closer to touchdown on Earth's only ... Ispace confirmed the spacecraft reached a critical milestone when Resilience entered a stable lunar orbit. The team at ...