Several issues conspired to bring Athena down, including tough lighting conditions near the moon's south pole.

The Intuitive Machines' Nova-C "Odysseus" lander has delivered its first image from the surface of the moon. Also, see the ...

Credit: ispace WASHINGTON — Japanese company ispace says its second lunar lander in now in orbit around the moon ... JAXA to develop a small lunar orbiter to map water ice deposits on the ...

The nearly 1,495-pound orbiter will arrive at the moon and establish an orbit by mid-December of 2022, stated NASA.

A Tokyo-based venture company has announced that it has succeeded in sending its lunar lander into orbit around the Moon ... It plans to gradually lower the altitude from about 100 kilometers ...

China to launch Tianwen-2 asteroid sampling mission on May 28 China is set to launch its second Tianwen deep space exploration mission late May, targeting both a near Earth asteroid and a main belt ...

However, NASA, with the backing of key congressional leaders, has held an iron grip on having its own heavy-lift launcher and ...

The CNSA said the Tianwen 2 mission is expected to accomplish multiple objectives through a single expedition, including the ...

China launched its first asteroid sampling mission early on Thursday morning, aiming to explore a near-Earth small asteroid ...

China's first asteroid sample-return mission, Tianwen 2, is scheduled for launch within the next two weeks from the Xichang ...

KIGAM has already produced an elemental map of the lunar surface using the KGRS on Danuri, South Korea’s first lunar orbiter ... communications in low lunar orbit to heat-pipe reactors for ...