The Mobile Autonomous Prospecting Platform (MAPP) rover aboard the toppled Intuitive Machines Athena lunar lander survived the landing that took out its parent spacecraft and even managed to transmit ...

NASA’s $2.6B CLPS Program Advances With $176.7M Firefly Deal Delivering CMU MoonRanger, CSA Rover, and Artemis Science ...

After failing to nail a lunar landing in 2023, ispace is once again vying to become the first commercial company in Japan to successfully perform a soft landing on the moon. It’s also set to deploy ...

A spacecraft from Japan attempting to make the country's first private moon landing on Thursday instead crashed into the lunar surface in a disappointing second failure for its ispace builders. The ...

A private lunar lander from Japan apparently crashed while attempting a touchdown Friday, the latest casualty in the commercial rush to the moon. The Tokyo-based company ispace confirmed the mission ...

NASA is quietly reshaping what surface exploration on the Moon will look like, trading the open buggies of Apollo for a new ...

The coming week is a very important one for the European space exploration efforts, as the continent's first Moon rover will finally have to chance to roam the deserted, regolith-covered surface of ...

The Japanese company ispace is hoping to make some space history on Thursday (June 5), when it attempts to land a private spacecraft on the moon. But if you're hoping to watch it live, you'll need to ...

An illustration of ispace's Resilience lunar lander and its Tenacious lunar rover. Credit: ispace Last week, I looked at the faces of our guests at our moon landing event and watched as awe, wonder ...

The day when NASA will have to finally decide on the crew-rated rover it will use for the exploration of the Moon is fast approaching. By the end of this year, the American space agency is likely to ...

The far side of the Moon has turned out to be far stranger than many planetary scientists expected, and the latest surprise ...