Members of the Iris team have assembled the Iris Lunar Dream Capsule, a tiny payload that will launch aboard Griffin-1, the next lunar lander from Carnegie Mellon spinout Astrobotic. The capsule — ...

New research may have finally figured out what is inside the Moon, and it has scientists excited to dig deeper.

Astronomers are excited about the first test images released today from the Vera C. Rubin Observatory, which show the ...

The apparent failure is a setback for Japan’s private space sector and highlights the formidable technical challenges of lunar landings. As ispace investigates the incident, the global space community ...

After Friday’s landing on Mare Frigoris, a lunar sea relatively close to the moon’s north pole, scheduled for 4:17 a.m. Japan time (1917 GMT, Thursday), the 2.3-metre-high lander and the ...

The company's first lunar lander in April 2023 crashed onto the moon's surface due to a software issue. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at straitstimes.com.

Japan’s ispace is preparing to attempt a second Moon landing on Friday, more than two years after its first mission ended in failure moments before touchdown. The private space company is aiming to ...

An illustration of ispace's Resilience lander. ispace Following its failed attempt to achieve a successful landing on the moon in 2023, there were high hopes that Japanese startup ispace would ...

Two years ago, ispace attempted to make the first commercial Moon landing but lost communication with the HAKUTO-R Mission 1. On Friday (Thursday EST), the second Hakuto mission, nicknamed Resilience, ...

If we can open up the moon, Couluris said, it will become "our eventual hub for the rest of the solar system.". The pace of Blue Origin work on lunar hardware is palpable.

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