Japan’s attempts to become ... These other two are still en route to the Moon. Sadly, the OMOTENASHI lander was the only one planned for a controlled landing. A shot of the lunar surface.

NASA partners with private companies to search for lunar water ice, a key factor for future human exploration of the moon ...

Intuitive Machines, which landed on the moon with its robotic IM-1 mission in February 2024, will be launching IM-2 as soon as January, also on a Falcon 9. The mission is optimized for the lunar south ...

NASA’s Lucy mission will continue its journey to explore the Jupiter Trojan asteroids, which share Jupiter’s orbit around the ...

similar to the Japanese space agency's SLIM which succeeded in the country's first lunar landing last year. Firefly's Blue Ghost aims to reach the moon 45 days after launch, around March 2.

Blue Ghost's final descent to the Moon is tentatively scheduled for March 2. The target landing site is in Mare Crisium, an ...

Japanese startup ispace vowed its upcoming second unmanned Moon mission will be a success, saying Thursday that it learned from its failed attempt nearly two years ago. In April 2023, the firm's first ...

SpaceX launched Japan’s ispace Resilience and the US-based Firefly Blue Ghost as part of the global effort to explore the moon. Resilience seeks a second lunar landing attempt after a prior setback, ...

Japan's Moon lander has produced another surprise by waking up after the two-week lunar night. According to Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, the unmanned Smart Lander for Investigating Moon touched ...

Frank Sinatra once crooned, "Fly me to the moon. Let me play among the stars," and for two companies, including one here in ...

Japanese startup ispace vowed its upcoming second unmanned moon mission will be a success, saying Thursday that it learned from its failed attempt nearly two years ago. In April 2023, the firm's ...