The current plan calls for Resilience to land that day at 3:24 p.m. EST (2024 GMT) near the center of Mare Frigoris ("Sea of Cold"), a basaltic plain in the moon 's northern reaches. But that's not ...

Athena will land in the moon's Mons Mouton region at 12:32 p.m. EST.

Japan became the fifth country in history to ... SLIM was carrying two small autonomous probes--lunar excursion vehicles LEV-1 and LEV-2, which officials say were believed to have been released ...

In 2018, JAXA’s asteroid probe Hayabusa2 also succeeded ... infrastructure through a project called the Lunar Navigation Satellite System. Japan will also be involved in this part of the Artemis ...

The spacecraft, about the size of a small car, conducted a series of experiments. It drilled three feet into the lunar soil, took X-ray images of the magnetic bubble that surrounds and protects Earth ...

India is planning to launch a fifth lunar probe carrying a 25-kilogram rover, in association with Japan, after becoming the fourth country to achieve a soft landing on the moon.

The Athena probe is designed to stay put once it ... Another small rover will attempt to drive autonomously around the lunar surface. Japan’s Dymon Corp. has also included a tiny roly-poly ...

A lunar probe funded by NASA and operated by the American ... A similar landing failure was also reported in January 2024 for Japan's SLIM lunar landing demonstration vehicle.

Japanese startup ispace on Tuesday set ... The US company is now aiming for another moon landing of its Athena probe on March 6, planning to touch down farther south on the moon than any previous ...

After its successful lunar touchdown, Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost mission could soon be joined on the moon by two more commercial spacecraft ...