If all goes according to plan, Resilience will touch down on June 5 within Mare Frigoris ("Sea of Cold"), a basaltic plain in ...

Japan’s 1st moon lander has hit its target, but it appears to be upside-down Japan became the fifth country in history to reach the moon when the Smart Lander for Investigating Moon, or SLIM ...

located to the north of the moon, though there is a possibility that the company could choose to switch to a backup landing location if necessary. Once the spacecraft has tested its ability to ...

Recently, some of the players in the Commercial Lunar Payload Services program met with the House Subcommittee on Space and Aeronautics ... to finance commercial moon landings.

On moon landing day, "I should have had a heart monitor. My heart was racing. But I had full confidence in the team," recalled Jason Kim, Firefly's Chief Executive Officer during the 40th Space ...

Kennedy’s historic 1961 moon landing prediction (“before this decade is out…”) would come true. Threlfall’s was the first official wager in the Space Race, and the odds were not in his ...

To better understand the physics behind the interaction of exhaust from the commercial human landing systems and the moon's surface, engineers and scientists at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center ...

A private lunar lander from Japan is now orbiting the moon, with just another month to go before it attempts a touchdown ...

Once spacecraft or other objects start descending, they are pulled toward the moon's surface, and it is difficult to re-ascend. Landings are therefore make-or-break. Japanese former astronaut ...

NASA's plans to return to the Moon are seemingly on very thin ice. As Reuters reports, NASA has lost four key senior Artemis officials, further stoking concerns that the space agency may ditch its ...