Washington DC (UPI) Jun 24, 2025 - Japanese company ispace said Tuesday that a hard landing during its attempted lunar landing in early June was due to an anomaly in the Laser Range Finder.
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Jun 23, 2025 - New research led by the University of Technology Sydney (UTS) reveals that lunar dust is considerably less toxic to human lung cells than typical Earth-based air pollution. This finding offers reass
Berlin, Germany (SPX) Jun 23, 2025 - DLR and NASA have signed a renewed agreement to strengthen their collaborative efforts in space medicine, with a particular emphasis on radiation research. The announcement came during the Paris Air
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Jun 21, 2025 - Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) is advancing a major leap in lunar imaging through a partnership with Firefly Aerospace. The lab's cutting-edge optical telescope system is set to fly a
St. Louis, MO (SPX) Jun 12, 2025 - The Apollo astronauts didn't know what they'd find when they explored the surface of the moon, but they certainly didn't expect to see drifts of tiny, bright orange glass beads glistening among the
Tokyo (AFP) June 6, 2025 - Japan's hopes of achieving its first soft touchdown on the Moon by a private company were dashed Friday when the mission was aborted after an assumed crash-landing, the startup said.
Tokyo (AFP) June 6, 2025 - Japan's hopes of achieving its first soft landing on the Moon by a private company were dashed Friday when the mission was aborted over lost contact with the Resilience spacecraft during a daunting final descent.
Tokyo (AFP) June 5, 2025 - A Japanese company lost contact with its Moon lander Resilience during a daunting final descent, dealing a blow to its bid to make history two years after a prior mission ended in a crash.
Paris (ESA) Jun 04, 2025 - RESILIENCE is the spacecraft element of ispace Mission 2 SMBC x HAKUTO-R Venture Moon, the latest step in the company's lunar exploration programme. It launched aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket fro
Paris, France (SPX) Jun 03, 2025 - )The next time astronauts step onto the Moon, viewers will experience it in stunning high-definition color and at up to 60 frames per second. This marks a significant leap forward from the grainy bl
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Jun 03, 2025 - Sierra Space, a commercial space company and defense technology leader, announced it has secured a NASA contract under the NextSTEP-2 Appendix R for Lunar Logistics and Mobility Studies. The contrac
Washington DC (SPX) Jun 02, 2025 - Advancing new hazard detection and precision landing technologies to help future space missions successfully achieve safe and soft landings is a critical area of space research and development, part
Washington DC (UPI) May 29, 2025 - The next phase of testing is set to begin for NASA's crewed Artemis program, which aims to return humans to the moon, the administration announced Thursday, and will serve as a foundation for travel to Mars.
Boston MA (SPX) May 26, 2025 - Where did the moon's magnetism go? Scientists have puzzled over this question for decades, ever since orbiting spacecraft picked up signs of a high magnetic field in lunar surface rocks. The moon it
Tokyo, Japan (SPX) May 20, 2025 - Queqiao-2, China's dedicated relay satellite for lunar landing missions, is now poised to support both domestic and international lunar exploration efforts, according to the Deep Space Exploration L
Washington DC (UPI) May 15, 2025 - Norway became the 55th nation to sign the Artemis Accords during a ceremony in Oslo Thursday, agreeing to a pact designed to promote international cooperation in space exploration.
