ISpace's private Resilience Lander will attempt to touch down on the Mare Frigoris region of the moon's surface on June 5, at 3:17 p.m. EDT (1817 GMT). While you won’t be able to see the lander itself ...
The successful placement of Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost lander on the Moon’s surface has been confirmed by NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter. The private spacecraft, part of NASA’s Commercial ...
A second commercially-built moon lander, this one built by Houston-based Intuitive Machines, landed near the moon's south pole Thursday, but telemetry indicated it ended up on its side. The lander is ...
Using energy greater than the global nuclear weapons inventory, an impact event carved two grand canyons into the moon’s surface, and the asymmetrical distribution could clear the way for future lunar ...
On July 20, 1969, Apollo 11 astronaut Neil Armstrong announced his historic arrival on the ancient lava plain of Mare Tranquillitatis with the following message to NASA: "Houston, Tranquility Base ...
SpaceX will launch Intuitive Machine’s Athena lunar lander toward the moon’s south pole on Wednesday, marking the latest mission by Intuitive Machine to explore the moon’s surface after completing the ...
What does it take to end a nearly four-decade pause in lunar soft landings? In December 2013, China answered with precision engineering, myth-inspired symbolism and a rover named after a rabbit. A ...
Where will future Artemis astronauts land on the lunar south pole? This is what a recent study published in The Planetary Science Journal hopes to address as a team of researchers from Japan ...
It’s a thrilling week for the moon: not only did this weekend see the landing of the Firefly Aerospace Blue Ghost mission, but there’s another lunar landing happening imminently too. Intuitive ...
It's always good to get a look at your landing site before touchdown. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Intuitive Machines' Athena ...
Experts say there's a critical need to advocate for global cooperation and policy frameworks to protect lunar heritage before irreversible damage occurs. A number of groups and individuals say there's ...
Noah Petro, a scientist at the Goddard Space Flight Center, shares new photographs of the Apollo 12, 14, and 17 landing sites. NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter captured so much detail that one can ...