If astronauts on the moon are to avoid harmful radiation, long-term lunar bases will need to be shielded by 2 to 3 metres of regolith – the moon’s surface layer of rock and dust.

Managing Director Matthew Aldridge believes the future of space mobility lies in advanced polymer engineering. “Our ...

T he status of a private Japanese moon lander — which was carrying Europe's first lunar rover — is in question after ground control suddenly lost contact with the spacecraft on Thursday (June ...

NASA is gearing up for a bold new era of lunar exploration with three advanced instruments set to investigate the Moon’s ...

Editor's note: This story was updated at 12:00 p.m. on Friday (June 6) with new information from ispace. A private Japanese moon lander — which was carrying Europe's first lunar rover — has ...

Today, a lunar rover test vehicle—almost identical to the vehicles that went to the moon on three Apollo flights—is parked in the National Air and Space Museum.

In 2025, NASA plans to launch a rover on one of the lunar swirls to further investigate this phenomenon. If you purchase a product or register for an account through a link on our site, we may ...

The rover, in turn, carried the art project, a tiny model of a Swedish house, designed by artist Mikael Genberg. The traditionally styled red-and-white house measures just 4.7 inches long, 4 ...

NASA has selected three instruments to travel to the moon, with two planned for integration onto an LTV (Lunar Terrain ...

The private Japanese spacecraft "Resilience" has seemingly been destroyed in a "hard landing" on the moon on Thursday. The lander was carrying what would have been the first European-built rover to ...

Along with Blue Ghost, NASA launched the Tenacious lunar rover from Japanese company ispace. It's one of the smallest planetary rovers ever designed, and it wouldn't look out of place in an RC car ...