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Drilling two meters deep for sampling will be a world first,” said Hou Zengqian, China’s chief scientist on the Tianwen-3 ...

China’s lunar ambitions have evolved from symbolic flag planting to a systematic push for permanent space infrastructure.

By passing President Trump’s budget reconciliation bill on Tuesday, lawmakers poured new funding into legacy infrastructure ...

NASA’s orbiter snapped crisp images of where a private spacecraft crashed, revealing telltale marks of disturbed lunar soil.

The Apollo Lunar Module (LM) was a two-stage vehicle designed by Grumman to ferry two astronauts from lunar orbit to the lunar surface and back. The upper ascent stage consisted of a pressurized crew ...

NASA, for its part, had already spotted the wreckage. About a week after the crash, the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter passed ...

The next big space threat isn't to Earth. It's to the Moon.

The spacecraft's laser range finder, or LRF, experienced an anomaly that prevented Resilience from obtaining valid ...

AP) A laser navigating tool doomed a Japanese company’s lunar lander earlier this month, causing it to crash into the moon.

A laser navigation error led to the crash of ispace's Resilience lunar lander. The mishap marked ispace's second unsuccessful ...

Lunar Vertex combines the expertise of several leading space institutions and commercial companies. APL is providing a magnetometer instrument for the lander, which Intuitive Machines is building. The ...