While Resilience and Blue Ghost are in orbit and preparing to leave for the moon, another lunar lander — Intuitive Machines ' IM-2, or Athena — recently arrived at Cape Canaveral to loaded atop of a ...

Japan’s Moon Sniper mission by JAXA set a new standard for precision in space travel. Explore the engineering feat and its ...

"If there's anything the world needs right now, it's a house on the moon," Genberg said at a pre-launch party. The MoonHouse will hitch a ride with the lunar lander Resilience from Japanese ...

Recent photos taken by India’s Space Research Organization moon orbiter, known as Chandrayaan 2, clearly show the Apollo 11 and Apollo 12 landing sites more than 50 years later. The photos were ...

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An IMDB photo shows actor Kaoru Kobayashi in the Japanese television show Midnight Diner. The show is part of an overall trend in East Asian media and food culture that's created a repertoire of ...

The dark skies during a new moon provide ideal conditions for spotting skywatching targets that would otherwise be outshined by moonlight. The next new moon will occur on Thursday, Feb. 27 at 7:45 ...

marking a major step in the race to commercialize the Moon. The liftoff from NASA's Kennedy Space Center carried landers from Japanese company ispace and U.S.-based Firefly Aerospace, both aiming ...

Handout/ ispace, inc./AFP On the Japanese side, Tokyo-based ispace's first attempt to land on the Moon ended in an unsalvageable "hard landing" in April 2023. "It's important to challenge ...

One rocket, two missions: lunar landers built by US and Japanese companies launched their “rideshare” to the moon on Wednesday, showcasing the private sector’s growing role in space exploration.

The next and first full moon of the year, also known as the Wolf Moon, will be in peak view on Monday. January's full moon will reach peak illumination at 5:27 p.m. ET on Monday, according to NASA.