A third private moon lander is getting closer to touchdown on Earth's only satellite this summer after Japan-based company ispace said its robotic mission is now orbiting the Moon.

NASA’s Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) are bringing us closer than we’ve been in decades to regular lunar exploration and scientific discovery. As a scientist, I admire what these ...

Japanese company ispace says its second lunar lander in now in orbit around the moon ahead of a landing attempt in early June ...

Prime Minister Narendra Modi highlights India's ambitious space exploration plans, including landing an astronaut on the Moon by 2040.

Blue Ghost took a more direct route to the moon, arriving in lunar orbit on Feb. 13 and touching down on Earth's nearest ...

A private lunar lander from Japan is now circling the moon, with just another month to go before it attempts a touchdown.

The touchdown came one year after Intuitive’s first moon lander, named Odysseus, landed on the moon while still moving ...

A meteorite found in Antarctica in 2012 suggests Earth may have formed with the materials needed to make water, a new study ...

A giant impact crater on the moon may contain primordial pieces of the lunar mantle and remnants of an ancient magma ocean, researchers say. Crewmembers on upcoming Artemis missions could potentially ...

DARPA (the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency) is looking for a private company to build spacecraft to orbit the ...

Chinese scientists have analyzed soil and rock samples from the far side of the Moon. These materials, collected from the ...

How can nanosatellites help advance lunar exploration and settlement? This is what a recent study presented at the 56th Lunar ...