A good way to find the Resilience Lander's forever home is to locate the Aristotles Crater, which sits above Mare Serenitatis on the southeastern shore of Mare Frigoris. From there, look to the ...

Japan-based company Ispace will attempt to safely land its Resilience spacecraft on the moon this week after the lunar lander ...

Pictures from a simulated moon landing, not designed to fool anyone into believing a fake but rather to provide a reference to make sure that we can get the best video images possible when astronauts ...

But his detailed budget request for the fiscal year 2026 also proposed cancelling dozens of the space agency’s missions, ...

China has fired a precision laser across 80,778 miles (130,000 km) of space in broad daylight, bounced it off a satellite circling the Moon, and measured the return, marking the world’s first ...

On June 5 at 09:24 PM CET, a tiny red house — a traditional Swedish cottage — is set to become the first house ever to land on the Moon. After traveling through space for more than four months aboard ...

LandSpace has increased the rocket's payload, reflecting increasing demand in China's expanding commercial space industry amid growing competition to form a constellation of satellites as an ...

Several notable missions have launched toward or landed on the Moon. Each has navigated the long journey through space and the even ... Choosing a landing site involves complex trade-offs between ...

Japan could offer resupply capabilities, high-precision landing technology ... rivals in space and are courting partner countries and leaning on private companies for their moon exploration ...

but rather a collection of rocks carefully plucked from the Moon and brought back to Earth following a mission carried out by NASA in 1969 and the early 1970s. The rock samples collected by Apollo ...