It was 1986, and the Cold War was still as icy as ever. The Iron Curtain was drawn; the US was busy illegally selling arms to ...

China’s lunar ambitions have evolved from symbolic flag planting to a systematic push for permanent space infrastructure.

Designed to hit transonic speeds in under a minute, the Soviet BI rocket fighter was a daring leap into future warfare. But ...

A laser navigating tool doomed a Japanese company’s lunar lander earlier this month, causing it to crash into the moon.

Resilience, ispace's second lunar lander, had problems measuring its distance to the surface and could not slow its descent fast enough.

A JAPANESE spacecraft attempting a touchdown on the moon has crashed into the lunar surface, its company said. The unmanned Resilience moon lander, from private Japanese astro firm ispace, has been… ...

A model of the lunar lander Resilience, operated by ispace, is displayed at a venue where employees will monitor its landing on the moon, in Tokyo, Japan, Jun 6, 2025. (Photo: Reuters/Manami Yamada) ...

Russia's first lunar lander mission in 47 years ended in failure when Luna-25 crashed into the moon. Credit: Space.com | footage and animation courtesy: Roscosmos | edited by Steve Spaleta ...

After the loss of competing Russian Luna-25 lander, India's Chandrayaan-3 is set to hunt for water ice in the moon's unexplored south pole region.

A robotic lander named Athena has made its final descent to the moon's surface, marking the second lunar touchdown for a US company this week. But the orientation of the lander is currently ...

On February 3, 1966, an inflatable ball bounced across the surface of the Moon. Inside was Luna 9, the first spacecraft to land softly on another world. After coming to rest, the Soviet Union’s lander ...