Athena was expected to operate for about 10 days before powering down as lunar night fell over the spacecraft’s landing site at Mons Mouton, a plateau that lies about 100 miles (160 kilometers) from ...

Viral comedy combat simulator Gorilla vs 100 Men teases zero-gravity fights as you reach for the stars and duke it out on the ...

More NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) has imaged the crash site of Resilience, a moon lander built and operated by the Tokyo-based company ispace. Resilience tried to touch down on June 5 ...

The moon lander dubbed Odysseus is “alive and well” but resting on its side a day after a white-knuckle touchdown as the first private spacecraft ever to reach the lunar surface, and the first ...

After a failed 2023 mission, ispace’s second moon landing attempt with the Resilience lander has hit a snag as no signal has been received post-touchdown.

But so far, only Firefly Aerospace has achieved a fully successful private lunar landing. The company launched its Blue Ghost lander on the same Falcon 9 rocket that ferried Resilience to the Moon ...

Multiple moon landings, conducted over several decades, produced a remarkably similar pattern of dust on the lunar surface.

The data will also be used to inform future ispace missions, the firm said. “Although we do not expect to complete the lunar landing at this time, we believe that we have fully accomplished the ...

NASA expects to send four astronauts around the moon next year. That would be followed a year or more later by the first lunar landing by a crew in more than a half-century, with SpaceX's Starship ...