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

Extremely smart’ explorer will search for ice on lunar surface and help carry out detailed survey of polar region, space ...

“This unique landing site will ... team’s ability” to land the company’s Blue Ghost vehicle successfully. The spacecraft will take a much slower path to the moon than Blue Ghost after ...

the Soviet Union launched the Luna 21 mission to land a rover on the moon. This was the second time that the Soviet Union put a rover on the moon and it was the 13th successful lunar landing of ...

Blue Ghost's main mission will be research. It will hang out in Earth's orbit for 25 days taking measurements and waiting for the right time to fling itself to the moon. After four days in transit, ...

Resilience's payload does, however, include a tiny lunar rover called Tenacious, which should make for an exciting mission if all goes right. Resilience is ispace's second attempt at a moon landing ..

These are exciting times in space exploration, as more and more countries and private enterprises are mastering technology not only to orbit the Earth, but to reach to the Moon and beyond. In just the ...

One week ago, a private lunar lander left the ground on a nearly 7-week journey to reach the surface of the moon. The launch ...

The Blue Ghost lunar lander, built by the Texas-based company Firefly Aerospace for NASA, launched to space on Jan. 15, and ...

aspires to land astronauts near the moon’s south pole by mid-2027. Artemis 1 was an uncrewed mission that sent NASA’s Orion capsule around the moon and back to Earth without landing.

HELSINKI — China’s Yutu-2 rover, part of the first ever mission to land on ... a landing with the support of a relay satellite, named Queqiao (Magpie Bridge). As the moon is tidally locked ...

In recent years, several spacecraft failed in their attempts to land on the moon. But 2025 may offer crucial second chances.