A private lunar lander from Japan apparently crashed while attempting a touchdown Friday, the latest casualty in the commercial rush to the moon. The Tokyo-based company ispace confirmed the mission ...

NASA’s Artemis II mission, now set for February 2026, aims to send astronauts around the Moon. It is just one of many space ...

Four-and-a-half months after launch atop a Falcon 9 rocket, a privately-built Japanese lander attempted to touch down on the moon Thursday, but telemetry indicated a higher-than-expected descent ...

A private lunar lander from Japan crashed while attempting a touchdown Friday, the latest casualty in the commercial rush to the moon. The Tokyo-based company ispace declared the mission a failure ...

SpaceX's next mission to the moon, and the next launch of its triple-booster Falcon Heavy rocket, has slipped to no earlier ...

An expensive lunar rover that once had its moon trip canceled has a ride once again. NASA has selected Blue Origin to help get VIPER, the Volatiles Investigating Polar Exploration Rover, to the moon ...

An illustration of ispace's Resilience lunar lander and its Tenacious lunar rover. Credit: ispace Last week, I looked at the faces of our guests at our moon landing event and watched as awe, wonder ...

Chang’e-6 made history by becoming the first to return samples from the Moon’s far side. It landed in the Apollo Basin within the South Pole–Aitken region and brought about 2kg of lunar material back ...

Sometimes space exploration doesn't go as planned. But even in failure, engineers can learn, adapt, and try again. One of the ...

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 ...

This week was supposed to be a very exciting one for the larger European space exploration efforts. On June 5, a lander called Resilience was supposed to touch down in the Mare Frigoris region of the ...