SpaceX has successfully completed the 100th launch of a Falcon rocket from pad 39A and sent two landers on their way to the ...

Firefly’s Blue Ghost — named after a species of U.S. Southeastern fireflies — should reach the moon first. The ...

SpaceX has sent Japanese and U.S. lunar landers on separate missions in a major step in the race to commercialize the Moon.

Over the past 50 years, 6 flags have been planted on the lunar surface, and the first one was in 1969. Scientists have been ...

The earlier Yutu rover lost mobility during its second lunar day (approximately 14.5 Earth days) but continued to operate until 2016. Yutu-2 had a design lifetime of three months but has set a new ...

Meanwhile, Tokyo-based Ispace sent Resilience, an improved version of the Hakuto-R spacecraft that crash-landed on the moon in 2023. A mini rover is on board, as well as a tiny red artwork called ...

“We’ve done everything we can on the design and the engineering ... Once lowered onto the lunar surface, ispace’s 11-pound (5-kilogram) rover will stay near the lander, traveling up ...

A new year of lunar exploration kicked off early Wednesday, when two robotic landers and a small rover began their journeys to the moon. A SpaceX rocket lifted off at 1:11 a.m. ET from NASA’s ...

Resilience is packed with five science payloads. These come mainly from commercial and academic partners, while one is a micro moon rover developed by ispace's Luxembourg-based subsidiary that ...

SpaceX has launched a pair of lunar landers for US and Japanese companies looking to jumpstart business up there.