What You Need To Know The touchdown time was expected to be 3:17 p.m. ET, Thursday, June 5 The lunar lander is believed to have crashed into the moon Get more space coverage here RELATED coverage ...

Monaco-based Venturi Space has debuted a new design for a next-generation lunar rover that it's calling Mona Luna. It's a pitch that it hopes the European Space Agency (ESA) will pick up during ...

Thursday's landing attempt was the seventh time a privately developed Moon lander tried to conduct a controlled touchdown on the lunar surface. Two Texas-based companies have had the most success.

A Japanese private lunar lander, Resilience, faced communication loss during its moon landing attempt. Ispace confirmed the lander departed lunar orbit. Contact was lost during the descent. This ...

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 ...

Astrobotic's first lunar lander missed the moon altogether in 2024 and came crashing back through Earth's atmosphere. For decades, governments competed to get to the moon.

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 ...