NASA cans lunar rover after spending $450 million building itNASA announced on Wednesday that it has canceled the planned Volatiles Investigating Polar Exploration Rover (VIPER) mission due to cost ov...
Space startups see funding surge as government spending remains high, report saysGeopolitical uncertainties have largely driven the surge in funding, as geospatial data and images collected by satellites are used by gove...
Exploring the history of lunar landings, as U.S. company achieves first private moon landingA U.S. company, Intuitive Machines, has successfully landed a spacecraft on the moon, becoming the first private entity to do so. This achi...
Private US moon lander launched half century after last Apollo lunar missionIntuitive Machines' Nova-C lander, Odysseus, launched to conduct the first U.S. lunar touchdown in 50 years. China aims for crewed lunar la...
Moon cargo like human ashes, drink containers sparks legal debateAn array of unconventional, privately funded plans to exploit the moon, including using it as a site for capsules of human remains, adverti...
Japan's 'Moon Sniper' attempts precision lunar landingJapan's precision "Moon Sniper" began its "power descent sequence" early Saturday towards the lunar surface, one of several new missions sp...
Japan hopes to join an elite club by landing on the moon: A closer lookJapan hopes to make the world's first "pinpoint landing" on the moon early Saturday, joining a modern push for lunar contact with roots in ...
First US lunar lander in more than 50 years launched but develops problem on way to moonThe Pittsburgh company's lander caught a ride on a brand new rocket, United Launch Alliance's Vulcan. The Vulcan streaked through the Flori...
Privately built moon lander suffers problem after Vulcan launch, imperiling US moonshotSpace robotics firm Astrobotic's Peregrine lunar lander launched at 2:18 a.m. ET from Cape Canaveral, Florida, on the first flight of Vulca...
First US lunar lander in five decades blasts off on private missionA new era in lunar exploration begins as the United Launch Alliance's Vulcan Centaur, a private industry-led initiative, successfully launc...
After Chandrayaan 3, India set to leave its footprint again on moon thanks to world’s 2nd pvt lunar missionThe Peregrine lander, carrying over 80,000 messages from children worldwide, is scheduled to lift off on Monday from Cape Canaveral Air For...
Meet the India-origin engineer leading America's first moon landing mission in 50 yearsNASA has launched five payloads to the Moon aboard Astrobotic's Peregrine lander, marking the inaugural mission under NASA's CLPS initiativ...
Peregrine Mission-1: Lander carries DNA of former US presidents and Star Trek icons on moonPeregrine Mission – 1, is the first US spacecraft to be landing on the moon's surface, after Apollo 17 in 1972. Here's everything to know m...
Japan firm fails in bid for historic Moon landingThe unmanned Hakuto-R Mission 1 lander had been scheduled to touch down on the Moon's surface overnight, but about 25 minutes after the lan...
Tiny robots made in Mexico to explore moon in scientific firstThe so-called nano robots developed by researchers at Mexico's National Autonomous University (UNAM) will work together like a swarm of bee...
Where NASA will send its first robotic Moon rover to search for iceVIPER will land near the moon’s south pole, at the western edge of the 45-mile-wide Nobile crater, which formed when something hit the moon.
Rover to carry Earth's art, poetry, music to the MoonA team of international researchers has put together some of the world's best art, poetry, music, drama and dance onto small disks and plan...