A robotic lander developed by a Japanese company named ispace plummeted to the Moon's surface Thursday, destroying a small rover and several experiments intended to demonstrate how future missions ...

NASA developed a concept for a mid-sized lander that would deliver a rover to the polar regions of the Moon. This design focuses on demonstrating a highly accurate, large payload lunar landing ...

After achieving a touchdown in early March within the moon's Mare Crisium impact basin, Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost lunar lander became an on-duty robotic scientist. Kicking up dust and rocks, the ...

Blue Origin, the space company founded by Jeff Bezos, will join NASA’s lunar lander program — competing against Elon Musk’s SpaceX to develop spacecraft intended to ferry astronauts to the ...

For many years, scientists at NASA have been investigating the possibility of sending a lander of some type to either Enceladus or Europa—both have icy crusts that cover a liquid-water ocean.

NASA's Lunar Trailblazer approaches the moon's orbit in this artist's concept. The small satellite will orbit about 60 miles above the lunar surface, providing the best-yet maps of water on the moon.

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

Flying behind the moon and out of contact with flight controllers, the lander's main engine will have to fire for seven minutes "in the blind" to put the craft into a 62-mile-high circular orbit ...

SpaceX launches lunar lander on flight to moon 02:28. Lighting up the deep overnight sky, a Falcon 9 rocket thundered away from Florida early Thursday, boosting a commercially built robotic lander ...

Five months after a SpaceX launch, a hot-tub-sized lunar lander will touch down on the moon's Atlas Crater. ... it succeeded in inspiring many new spacecraft concepts, ispace’s lander included.

Second moon lander in a week touches down, but unclear if still upright March 6, 2025 Updated Thu., ... The rover will also attempt to collect some regolith as a proof-of-concept, ...

Deep Excavation Operations. The Lander equipped with the RiNG arm and ICEPIC tool during and after an extended plunge trench, which netted 27 cm of depth under the original surface.