Chennai: ISRO chairman V Narayanan said that the Centre has recently accorded approval for the ambitious Chandrayaan-5 ...

Two crew members will enter the lander, which will then undock and descend toward the lunar surface for an engine-assisted soft landing. On the moon, the astronauts will drive a Tansuo rover to ...

Five nations have made successful soft landings in the past - the then-Soviet Union, the United States, China, India and, last year, Japan. The United States and China are both aiming to put their ...

This slow-motion clip shows the bird slipping and sliding along the ground after a less-than-smooth landing. It’s pretty funny to see one of these usually elegant creatures looking so undignified!

It was not until February 22, 2024, that another American-built spacecraft made a soft landing on the Moon. This was the Nova-C Odysseus lander built by Intuitive Machines. It landed, toppled over ...

While fellow Texas company Intuitive Machines managed a soft landing in 2024 under the program, that company’s lander named Odysseus tipped to one side, and NASA was not able to glean as much ...

Firefly becomes the second private firm to score a moon landing, though it declared itself the first company to make a "fully successful" soft landing. Houston-based Intuitive Machines' Odysseus ...

Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost Mission 1 has made history by successfully landing on the Moon as seen in this illustration. Credit: Firefly Aerospace Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost has landed on the ...

Private lunar lander Blue Ghost after touching down on the moon with a special delivery for NASA. The moon's surface and Earth are visible on the horizon, Blue Ghost's solar panel, X-band antenna ...

Following a journey of over 2.8 million miles, Firefly Aerospace has become the first commercial company to achieve a successful soft-landing on the Moon. Blue Ghost’s shock absorbing legs stabilised ...

Houston-based Highland Resources, along with Charleston Mayor William Cogswell, broke ground Feb. 28 on the long-sidelined, 200-acre Magnolia Landing development near King Street Extension and ...

We worked with the NASA LRO team to get imagery for the same time of the day as the landing to help test our models. We tested loads on the lander structure with a 60-foot [18-meter] test structure ...