There was a watch party at Columbia headquarters in Portland, with hundreds of eyes glazed to projectors awaiting the landing. Just before 10 a.m., the lander, Athena, finally reached the moon ...

The Chandrayaan-3 mission successfully landed the Vikram lander on the Moon’s south pole on August 23, 2023, demonstrating India’s end-to-end lunar landing capabilities. Following Chandrayaan-5, ISRO ...

ISRO has successfully executed three Chandrayaan missions, and the latest, Chandryaan-3, resulted in a safe and soft landing on the moon. Union minister Jitendra Singh said last year that the ...

WATER-ICE ON the Moon could be more prevalent than understood earlier. A new analysis of data from one of the instruments aboard Chandrayaan-3 suggests that there was a good probability that water-ice ...

Elaborating India’s progress in space research, the rocket scientist said that Chandrayaan-3 ... moon mission by 2040. Besides approving the Venus Orbiter Mission and moon landing mission ...

This revealed that the top layer of the lunar regolith is highly non-conductive, shedding new light on the Moon’s composition and thermal properties. During Chandrayaan-3’s landing near 70 ...

Now, temperature readings from the Chandra Surface Thermophysical Experiment (CHASTE), an instrument on the Chandrayaan-3 ... landing Artemis missions near the lunar south pole. Isro’s long-term plans ...

Intuitive Machines’ second lunar lander to reach the moon’s surface—Athena —has powered off after landing sideways on the lunar south pole. The Houston-based private space exploration ...

After a day of uncertainty following a harrowing moon landing attempt ... from IM-2 and apply it to its next moon mission, IM-3, in 2026. The company also has a $117 million NASA contract for ...

The Blood Moon rises once again. Please be careful, The White Lotus! Sailing into the night with the massive full moon looming ominously above the horizon is one of the eerier moments in a ...

Its main mission will be to hunt for lunar ice, a crucial resource needed by future moon explorers. Unfortunately, as with the first Intuitive Machines landing ... would take 3-D images and ...

a fate that befell two other spacecraft that made it to the Moon's surface without crashing last year. And even-even better? We have some absolutely magnificent footage of the landing as it took ...