In partnership with NASA, the Intuitive Machines lander Athena will send a water-seeking drill, a pogo-sticking crater probe ...

Blue Ghost's final descent to the Moon is tentatively scheduled for March 2. The target landing site is in Mare Crisium, an ancient 350-mile-wide (560-kilometer) impact basin in the northeast part of ...

JAXA small lunar landing demonstrator "SLIM ". Watch how it travels to the moon's surface in this animated explainer. Credit: ...

Private US company Intuitive Machines is back with its second Nova-C lander nicknamed Athena for the IM-2 mission. It is ...

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The company’s second lunar lander, Athena, will carry a small rover and other payloads when its launched, which is tentatively scheduled for late February. Last February, the uncrewed Odysseus ...

Tucked inside the rocket’s bullet-shaped nose cone were the two lunar landers — hailing from two different countries. The first is Blue Ghost, a 6.6-foot-tall (2-meter-tall) lunar lander ...

Genberg's Moonhouse will be aboard ispace's second attempt at reaching the lunar surface. Using its moon lander "Resilience" ...

Recently, ESA has just signed a landmark contract with Italy’s Thales Alenia Space to build this lander dubbed Argonaut. Thales has secured a nearly $900 million contract from the ESA to develop the ...

Type of craft: Lander and rover. Who's doing it?ispace, a Japanese lunar robotic exploration ... Objectives: The mission's rover will look inside the icy crater for water ice and ...

The Blue Ghost lunar lander has captured its first images of the moon from the spacecraft’s orbit around Earth, the Texas-based company Firefly Aerospace announced this week. The two images — which ...

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