The spacecraft's laser range finder, or LRF, experienced an anomaly that prevented Resilience from obtaining valid ...

Aside from Texas-based Firefly, only five countries have pulled off a successful lunar landing: the Soviet Union, the U.S., ...

NASA, for its part, had already spotted the wreckage. About a week after the crash, the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter passed ...

Spacecraft from NASA and India's space agency have snapped orbital photos of the Japanese lunar lander Resilience after its ...

JAXA small lunar landing demonstrator "SLIM ". Watch how it travels to the moon's surface in this animated explainer. Credit: ...

It’s hard to land on the moon, technically. We know it’s not easy. It’s not something that everyone can do.” These words of ...

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER — The Japanese company ispace announced that it believes its HAKUTO-R Mission 2 lunar lander has been lost while attempting to land on the moon on Thursday afternoon.

NASA engineers are recreating the challenging lighting conditions of the Moon’s South Pole to prepare astronauts for the ...

The photos, taken by NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, show a dark mark and a faint halo in the Mare Frigoris region—also ...

The lander carried six payloads, including an 11-lb. microrover named Tenacious, built by ispace's Luxembourg division. The ...

Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost lunar lander successfully landed on the moon on Sunday, March 02, 2025. It will spend 14 days on the moon, using NASA's 10 payloads to learn more about Earth's ...

Better understanding the lunar lighting environment will help NASA prepare astronauts for the harsh environment Artemis III ...