The Chang'e-4 probe is the latest mission sent to the moon by CNSA, the Chinese space agency. The first two lunar missions were orbiters, and the third was a lander-rover combo that successfully ...

This is not the first time ispace ... next model of the lunar lander. The company’s HAKUTO-R lunar lander named RESILIENCE and lunar rover TENACIOUS where expected to land near the moon ...

The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera (LROC) has captured dramatic landscapes of the Moon since it was first launched in 2009. A New Moon Rises showcased those breathtaking images from Apollo ...

But thanks to heavy, sustained investments, China is now a major player in planetary science, having already successfully sent an orbiter and rover ... e 6 lunar samples. It is first-class ...

A private Japanese moon lander — which was carrying Europe's first lunar rover — has likely been destroyed in a "hard landing" after ground control suddenly lost contact with the spacecraft on ...

On June 5, a lander called Resilience was supposed to touch down in the Mare Frigoris region of the Moon, delivering, among other things, the continent's first-ever lunar rover. Turns out the ...

Two years ago, the company’s first moon shot ended in a crash landing, giving rise to the name Resilience for its successor lander. Resilience carried a rover with a shovel to gather lunar dirt ...

Communications ceased less than two minutes before the spacecraft's scheduled landing on the moon with a mini rover. Until then ... which reached the moon faster and became the first private entity to ...