As different nations begin conducting operations on the lunar surface, humanity's penchant for geopolitical struggles will ...

This picture of the moon’s south pole was taken in May by Resilience, a robotic lander operated by the Japanese company Ispace that probably crashed on the lunar surface on Thursday. Some people ...

China’s lunar ambitions have evolved from symbolic flag planting to a systematic push for permanent space infrastructure.

Journey into the Moon’s captivating landscape with new high-magnification telescope footage revealing craters, towering mountains, vast plains, and strange formations rarely seen in such clarity ...

If you have ever looked at the Moon, you will see it is pretty much covered in craters. To give you an idea of how many, a study in 2020 found over 109,000 new craters in the low- and mid-latitude ...

Witness the Moon’s surface in unprecedented detail with super high-quality footage shot through a powerful telescope, reaching up to 680X magnification. This immersive tour follows the lunar ...

Such a gradual approach to the moon does not, however, guarantee landing success. Ispace’s first attempt to put a spacecraft on the lunar surface ended with a crash landing in April 2023 after a ...

The image, taken in October 2024 using the High Resolution Stereo Camera (HRSC) on the European Space Agency 's (ESA) Mars Express orbiter, shows a crumbling crater called Deuteronilus Cavus. It ...

Nasa's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) captured photos of the site where the ispace Mission 2 attempted to land.