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 ...

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Komatsu presents their model for moon excavation, a project developed in conjunction with the government of Japan. With the different gravity and atmosphere on the moon to account for, they’ll ...

The researchers analysed oxygen isotopes from 14 samples from the Moon and carried out 191 measurements on minerals from Earth. Isotopes are varieties of the same element that differ only in the ...

In a two-for-one moonshot, SpaceX launched a pair of lunar landers Wednesday for US and Japanese companies looking to jumpstart ... the latest in a stream of private spacecraft aiming for the moon.

In a joint lunar venture, SpaceX has launched two lunar landers for American and Japanese companies striving to establish a foothold on the moon. This exciting mission aims to bring new business ...

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.

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 ...

Two moon landers built by private U.S. and Japanese companies are on their way to the moon after lifting off early Wednesday on a shared ride aboard a SpaceX rocket. The launch from NASA's Kennedy ...

Firefly had purchased a Falcon 9 launch to send its Blue Ghost lander to the moon. At the same time, Ispace, to save on the costs for the mission, had asked SpaceX for a rideshare, that is ...