The Resilience spacecraft went dark during its landing attempt on June 5, and likely hit the moon too fast. The company will ...

A robotic lander developed by a Japanese company named ispace plummeted to the Moon's surface Thursday, destroying a small rover and several experiments intended to demonstrate how future missions ...

The European Space Agency's ESTRACK ground network will support communication between the lander and ispace's Mission Control Center in Tokyo. The mission is also part of a grander ispace vision.

In this week’s episode of Space Minds we bring you a special panel discussion on the future of commercial lunar exploration ...

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

At Paris Air Show, European-based space company Venturi Space unveiled MONA LUNA, a European lunar rover designed for ESA and ...

SFL Missions Inc. is a member of the team led by NUVIEW GmbH that has been contracted by the European Space Agency (ESA) to conduct a Pre-Phase A study, within a new scheme for Small Exploration ...

A spacecraft from Japan attempting to make the country's first private moon landing on Thursday instead crashed into the ... or deploy the small Tenacious rover built by the European Space Agency.