A successful landing would be the second for Japan, whose national space agency put a spacecraft called SLIM ("Smart Lander for Investigating Moon') down ... in the space art beat.

a commemorative plate and the Moonhouse art installation by Swedish artist Mikael Genberg mounted to the rover. Resilience will mark the third Moon landing attempt this year. Another mission from ...

More recently, in 2019, China’s Chang’e 4 achieved the first soft landing on the Moon’s far side. And in 2023, India’s Chandrayaan-3 became the first to land successfully near the lunar ...

Contract competition. Firefly didn't go straight from landing in Cedar Park to landing on the moon. But it did both — and is aiming for more in the near future. "On the moon? Cedar Park on the ...

Launched on January 15, the lander has taken a slow but fuel-efficient path to the moon, and is now making preparations for landing next month. The company ispace is attempting a lunar landing for ...

The year’s first moon landing was a big success. The second not so much. Now a third commercial lunar lander has entered orbit around the moon ahead of its chance for glory next month.

“Y’all stuck the landing. We’re on the moon,” said an engineer at mission control in Austin as the Blue Ghost team erupted in cheers that were heard during the NASA-Firefly Aerospace live fee ...

A Belgian sculptor credited with the "Fallen Astronaut" figurine left on the surface of the moon in 1971 has now fallen himself. Artist Paul Van Hoeydonck died on Saturday (May 3) at his home in ...

Credit: ispace WASHINGTON — Japanese company ispace says its second lunar lander in now in orbit around the moon ahead of a landing attempt in early June. The company announced May 6 its ...

Due to an issue with Intuitive Machines’ lunar lander Odysseus’ internal navigation system, the EagleCam could not be deployed to capture the historic soft-moon landing of a spacecraft from a ...

I’ve been doing so in my addresses and homilies since that far-off year of 1969, the year of my ordination as a priest and man’s landing on the moon. Excerpted with permission from Life ...