While Resilience and Blue Ghost are in orbit and preparing to leave for the moon, another lunar lander — Intuitive Machines ' IM-2, or Athena — recently arrived at Cape Canaveral to loaded atop of a ...

The propulsion module will enable the lander to ascend and descend to the moon’s surface, carrying its cargo of scientific instruments, rovers, and more, which will assure European autonomous access ...

The RPS uses two Stirling engines to convert the heat generated by the decay of Plutonium-238 (Pu-238) into electricity.

Thales Alenia Space signed a contract valued at 862 million euros ($898.4 million) with the European Space Agency to develop a lander to ship cargo to the Moon.

On Monday (Jan. 27), Texas-based Firefly released two photos of the moon that Blue Ghost captured from Earth orbit. One shows ...

China plans to land humans on the moon by 2030. See animations of the crew on the moon with a lander and rover. Credit: China ...

Two new moon ... lunar orbit. iSpace from Japan is launching its second attempt at a moon landing with Hakuto-R Mission 2 (Japanese for “white rabbit”). Among other things, the Resilience ...

Lunar New Year — also commonly called Chinese New Year — marks the start of the new year based on lunar calendars, or monthly cycles of the moon's phases. The lunar new year starts with the ...

This will be the second lander built by Intuitive Machines. More CLPS missions could head to the Moon later this year. Meanwhile, the lunar lander from ispace that launched in tandem with Firefly ...

It's take 2 for the Tokyo-based ispace, whose first lander crashed into the moon two years ago. This time, it has a rover on board with a scoop to gather up lunar dirt for study and plans to test ...

LOS ANGELES, Jan. 15 (Xinhua) -- A suite of NASA scientific investigations and technology demonstrations is on the way to the moon aboard a commercial lunar lander launched earlier Wednesday. The ...

Under this, NASA is planning to return humans to the Moon for the first time in over five decades. Sharing the ride inside the rocket’s cargo bay is the 7.5-foot-tall (2.3-metre) lunar lander of ...