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 ...

Swedish artist Mikael Genberg is just a few months away from having an artistic dream fulfilled. His 25-year-long project, ...

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

The design of the micro rover is as simple as it gets. Four wheels capable of moving across the lunar surface with ease are placed at each corner of the flimsy-looking body, made of carbon fiber ...

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

Blum, an Israeli-American who first visited Japan in 2015, returned to the country in 2018 for a PhD during which he researched lunar rovers and their ability to navigate bumpy and uneven terrain.

On this mission, the Resillience lander will carry a tiny rover as well as tech instruments ... The mission will send a robotic lander to test Blue Moon’s design and engine capabilities, aiming ...

Firefly's "Blue Moon" and ispace's "Resilience" are the latest in an ongoing push to gain private-sector experience exploring ...