In the history of spaceflight, three nations have successfully landed a spacecraft on the surface of the moon. Israel hopes to be the fourth, as SpaceIL prepares their robotic lander to launch aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket. SpaceIL noted late on Wednesday that the mission has been delayed – albeit by only a couple of weeks – to the beginning of 2019 with a moon landing around eight weeks after launch.
Speaking at the 2017 International Astronautical Congress in Adelaide, Australia, Elon Musk has laid out…
China’s Chang’e-3 and the lunar rover Yutu (Jade Rabbit) have landed on the lunar surface…
The Chinese have begun their most ambitious lunar mission to date, following the successful launch…
NASA’s latest mission to the Moon launched aboard an Orbital Sciences Minotaur rocket Friday night.…
NASA Administrator Charlie Bolden has strongly ruled out missions to land on the Moon as…
The latest documentation relating to the efforts to create an Exploration Roadmap for NASA’s future…
The debut of the Space Launch System (SLS) will send the Orion (MPCV) on a…
If the first half of 2009 for NASA demonstrated the agency’s unwavering attention to safety,…
An Atlas V rocket carrying NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) and sister payload Lunar CRater…
Japan are heading to the moon following the launch of their SELENE (SELenological and ENgineering…
Europe’s three year moon mission has to come to an end, as SMART-1 completed its…
NASA researchers are working on an alternative form of space travel to the Moon, involving…
Jeff Hanley – manager of NASA’s new Constellation Program – believes the new mission to…
NASA will hold a press conference on Monday or Tuesday of next week to reveal…
2024 was another busy year for space science, with many new missions, successes, and discoveries…
Using supercomputer simulations, a team of NASA scientists recently modeled the destruction of an asteroid…
Astronomers have found evidence for a volcanic moon orbiting an exoplanet 635 light-years from Earth.…
Astronomers have found more than 350 possible moons around asteroids by analyzing data from the…
China provided several updates to its lunar exploration plans, while private companies like LandSpace and…
