Los Angeles CA (SPX) Mar 21, 2025 - Chinese scientists have precisely dated the moon's oldest and largest impact feature, the South Pole-Aitken (SPA) basin, to 4.25 billion years ago using lunar samples returned by the Chang'e-6 missi
Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Mar 18, 2025 - ispace, inc. has entered into a formal agreement with Kurita Water Industries, Ltd., a Japanese specialist in water treatment and chemical manufacturing, to support the delivery of a water purificat
Washington (AFP) Mar 18, 2025 - A private US lander has captured eerie high-definition images of a lunar sunset, which NASA hopes will help unravel the mystery of a strange haze first observed on the Moon in the 1960s.
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Mar 14, 2025 - Shortly after landing on the Moon aboard Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost 1 lander on March 2, the Southwest Research Institute-led Lunar Magnetotelluric Sounder (LMS) successfully activated and deplo
Hampton VA (SPX) Mar 14, 2025 - A team at NASA's Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia, has captured first-of-its-kind imagery of a lunar lander's engine plumes interacting with the Moon's surface, a key piece of data as tr
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Mar 13, 2025 - NASA's mission team is continuing efforts to restore communication with the Lunar Trailblazer spacecraft after losing contact on February 27, just a day after its launch. The mission operators at Ca
Washington DC (UPI) Mar 7, 2025 - NASA on Friday rolled out the new Artemis II Orion spacecraft and twin Space Launch System solid rocket boosters that will carry astronauts in the first crewed Artemis mission around the moon.
Washington (AFP) Mar 7, 2025 - Intuitive Machines' second Moon mission ended in disappointment on Friday after the US company confirmed that its spacecraft had tipped over and was unable to recharge its solar-powered batteries - mirroring its first attempt last year.
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Mar 06, 2025 - Lonestar Data Holdings has reached a critical milestone with the successful testing and operation of its commercial data center payload while traveling through space en route to the Moon. This achie
Berlin, Germany (SPX) Mar 06, 2025 - On 2 March 2025, the Blue Ghost mission successfully executed an automated landing in Mare Crisium, a basin located on the Moon's northeastern near side. This milestone marks Firefly Aerospace as th
Washington (AFP) Mar 6, 2025 - Second time unlucky: A US company's lunar lander appears to have touched down at a wonky angle on Thursday, an embarrassing repeat of its previous mission's less-than-perfect landing last year.
Washington (AFP) Mar 6, 2025 - A drill to search for ice. A 4G network test. Three rovers and a first-of-its-kind hopping drone.
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Mar 05, 2025 - NASA and the Italian Space Agency made history on March 3, when the Lunar GNSS Receiver Experiment (LuGRE) became the first technology demonstration to acquire and track Earth-based navigation signals on the Moon's surface
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Mar 05, 2025 - NASA's mission operations team at Caltech's IPAC remains committed to restoring communication with the Lunar Trailblazer satellite, which recently lost signal. Preliminary telemetry data prior
Tokyo (AFP) Mar 4, 2025 - Japanese startup ispace on Tuesday set a June 6 target touchdown date for its Moon lander, following the success of its rocket rideshare buddy, a spacecraft from a US firm.
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Mar 04, 2025 - The Regolith Adherence Characterization (RAC) experiment has successfully arrived on the lunar surface, where it will operate for one full lunar day-equivalent to 14 Earth days-conducting research o
