KENNEDY SPACE CENTER — After launching from Florida's space coast and cruising toward the moon for the last five months, the Japanese company ispace is preparing to touch down its lunar lander on ...

Two rival teams — one using machine learning, the other human eyes — race to find the first spacecraft to soft-land on the moon.

Luna 9 was the first spacecraft to soft-land on the moon. In 1966, the main spacecraft ejected a 99-kg lander module that used a landing bag to survive impact. The problem is, given the technology ...

China on Wednesday successfully conducted a low-altitude demonstration and verification flight test for its Long March-10 carrier rocket in the southern island province of Hainan, the China Manned ...

Luna 9 was the first spacecraft to soft-land on the Moon, sending the first images from the lunar surface to Earth. The Luna ...

ISRO has selected a suitable site in the Moon's South Polar region for the upcoming Chandrayaan-4 lunar mission.

Blue Origin’s next launch from the Space Coast could still be its uncrewed and newly named Blue Moon MK1 lander, but it will have to take a trip to Houston and back before it can get to the moon. The ...

A new gallery reveals the centuries-old connection between art and the experience of flight. The desire to fly—from soaring with birds to exploring distant planets—has long piqued human imagination.

With its metaphorical feet held over the allegorical fire by NASA, SpaceX has released a new, simplified plan to build a lander to put US astronauts back on the Moon now that the competition for the ...

SpaceX has shown off intriguing renders of the interior of the Human Landing Systems (HLS) variant of its enormous Starship spacecraft — and we can’t shake the feeling that it’s a surprisingly poor ...

A suggestion made last week by acting NASA administrator Sean Duffy that SpaceX could be booted from the agency’s upcoming moon-landing plans has rocked the space industry. Now, behind the scenes, ...

Nottingham Trent University provides funding as a member of The Conversation UK. The United States and China are locked in a contest to be the first country to send humans to the lunar surface in half ...