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 ...

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 has awarded Firefly Aerospace a $176.7 million contract to deliver two rovers and three scientific instruments to the ...

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 ...

This week was supposed to be a very exciting one for the larger European space exploration efforts. On June 5, a lander called Resilience was supposed to touch down in the Mare Frigoris region of the ...

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 ...

Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum Fields and Fundamental Forces from Imperial College London.View full profile Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum ...