Additionally, China is also investing in a human lunar program, seeking to land its own astronauts on the surface of the Moon ...

This photo taken and beamed back to Earth autonomously by a mini rover released from the lander-ascender combination of Chang'e 6 probe shows ... from the moon's far side has supported a major ...

It noted that knowing the formation time of the 2,500-kilometer-wide SPA basin, which is located on the moon's far side, ...

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 ...

The probe misjudged its rate of descent and hit the moon hard, snapping a leg and tipping onto its side. The Intuitive Machines landing comes less than a week after another company, Firefly ...

A private lunar lander, developed by Texas-based Intuitive Machines, was declared dead on Friday, hours after landing sideways in a crater near the Moon’s south pole, the company confirmed.

China, India and Japan. RELATED: Blue Ghost lunar lander touches down on moon for NASA delivery Earlier in the week, another Texas company scored a successful landing under NASA’s commercial ...

China is moving ahead with its goal of a manned lunar landing before the end of the decade while planning new missions to its Tiangong space station this year.

China is exploring the possibility of building a permanent base on the Moon inside natural tunnels formed by ancient lava flows. The Moon’s surface is riddled with millions of craters.

Intuitive Machines' IM-2 Athena lander ended up on its side on the moon, forcing a premature end to a mission packed with rovers and NASA science. Amanda Kooser Freelance writer Amanda C.