China’s commercial space industry is rapidly gaining momentum, with private companies aiming to compete with SpaceX. Backed ...

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 ...

Scientists have long sought to determine the age of the moon's South Pole–Aitken (SPA) basin, the largest and oldest known ...

The South China Morning Post (SCMP) reported that the proposed lunar radio telescope array would feature 7,200 ...

A carrier rocket and a spacecraft are always on standby on the ground to rescue astronauts aboard the Chinese space station.

Blue Ghost touched down on March 2 and ran all 10 NASA science experiments without issue. It even watched last week's solar ...

The first private lunar lander to pull off a fully successful Moon mission has fallen silent. Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost lander fell silent at the weekend, wrapping up two weeks of science ...

Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost lander fell silent over the weekend, wrapping up two weeks of science experiments for NASA.

AFP Moon exploration by private companies is escalating. Here's why: A company that establishes infrastructure first could dominate a burgeoning lunar economy. Sign up for the Daily Briefing Get ...

This happened in response to the announcement about their latest mission to Moon, IM-2, which ended in failure after the craft failed to land ... priority given China’s recent declaration ...

Of the four CLPS missions attempted so far, only one lander managed an upright touchdown, two landed sideways, and one failed to reach the Moon altogether. AFP ...

Firefly Aerospace succeeded in its first attempt to land on the moon with its uncrewed ... there in a series of crewed missions beginning in 2027. China, meanwhile, is making swift progress ...