A Japanese commercial spacecraft is zeroing in on its second attempt at a lunar landing, now flying laps around the moon. The company ispace entered lunar orbit more than a week ago, sending its ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — NASA’s Orion capsule entered an orbit stretching tens of thousands of miles around the moon Friday, as it neared the halfway mark of its test flight.

It will remain in this broad but stable orbit for nearly a week, completing just half a lap before heading home. As of Friday’s engine firing, the capsule was 238,000 miles (380,000 kilometers ...

The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter entered orbit at 6:27 a.m. ET on Tuesday, but it will take the spacecraft close to two months before it enters its mission orbit of about 50 kilometres above the ...

After travelling over 5.5 million kilometres around the Earth, the spacecraft swung into the moon’s elliptical orbit and is on track for touchdown April 11.