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 ...

The RPS uses two Stirling engines to convert the heat generated by the decay of Plutonium-238 (Pu-238) into electricity.

Thales Alenia Space has won an 862 million euro ($897 million) order from the European Space Agency (ESA) to deliver a lunar lander for moon exploration launches to begin in the 2030s, the firm said ...

Artificial intelligence is making its way to the moon! Learn how AI is transforming lunar missions, along with updates on ...

Two commercial lunar landers are currently on their way to the Moon, and at least two more are set to follow this year under NASA’s Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) initiative. Meanwhile, ...

Still circling Earth, Firefly Aerospace's lunar lander fired its thrusters Thursday to put it on a path to reach the moon in ...

Ahead of the lunar lander is a 60-day mission to Earth's only natural ... Technology had called off its own moon landing ...

Mars in 2024 was the site of the sad end of a machine that lived far beyond expectations. On January 18, NASA's Ingenuity ...

The SpaceX rocket carries lunar landers from companies based in Texas and Japan. They could arrive at the moon in the coming ...

The probe was launched aboard the Hakuto-R Mission 2 Resilience lunar lander developed by Japanese start-up ispace Inc on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket in Florida, the university said. National Central ...

"The mission is now in the hands of the unstoppable Firefly team." This is the first lunar lander built by Firefly, which got its start in the rocket business. Firefly launches its own small-class ...

It's take 2 for the Tokyo-based ispace, whose first lander crashed into the moon two years ago. This time, it has a rover on board with a scoop to gather up lunar dirt for study and plans to test ...