The current plan calls for Resilience to land that day at 3:24 p.m. EST (2024 GMT) near the center of Mare Frigoris ("Sea of ...

In the meantime, a Japanese lander known as Resilience was launched in January atop the same Falcon 9 rocket that boosted the Blue Ghost into space. Built by Tokyo-based ispace, Resilience took a ...

After two weeks, the Blue Ghost lander from the US company Firefly Aerospace is silent. It was the longest private moon ...

With the launch of Intuitive Machines' Athena spacecraft atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket last night (Feb. 27), three lunar landers are currently on their way to the moon. Such a surge of exploration has ...

March 4 (UPI) --Japanese lunar exploration company ispace announced Tuesday it will aim to place a lander on the moon on June 6. Founder and CEO Takeshi Hakamada held a press conference Monday to ...

Firefly Aerospace on Monday announced the conclusion of its Blue Ghost lunar lander mission, declaring it the first “fully ...

After hours of uncertainty, officials from the Houston company said there are clues that the spacecraft is on its side, which ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Landing a spacecraft on the moon has long been a series of hits and misses. The latest casualty ...

Japanese startup Dymon Co. said Saturday its ultra-compact, lightweight rover, which reached the Moon aboard a U.S. lander, ...

A Japanese company's lunar lander shared the SpaceX rocket ride, but took an even longer route to get to the moon. That lander from ispace is targeting an early June touchdown. Another Texas ...

Resilience is taking a much longer, more circuitous route to the moon; the Japanese lander isn't expected to reach lunar orbit until late May or early June. It will make its touchdown attempt ...