July 20th is Moon Day, Space Exploration Day and the anniversary of the first Apollo 11 moonwalk. Here’s a look at the Apollo ...

Buzz Aldrin pays tribute to the Apollo 11 mission on its anniversary, invoking Kennedy's famous speech and expressing ...

In honor of the 56th anniversary of the moon landing, which started Florida’s reputation as a rocket launch hub, here’s more about Earth’s natural satellite.

ROME (AP) — Pope Leo XIV marked the 56th anniversary of man’s arrival on the moon Sunday with a visit to the Vatican ...

Ispace tried and failed in 2023 when its first lander ran out of propellant nearing the surface, dropping to a "hard" crash landing. Pittsburgh-based Astrobotic Technology launched its Peregrine ...

A private space exploration company based in Japan, ispace, wants to see people living on the moon by 2040. They have plans to eventually build a city on the lunar surface that would house a ...

That lander, named Blue Ghost, successfully landed on March 2, marking the second-ever successful soft moon landing of a private spacecraft. Blue Ghost operated for two weeks as designed, ...

The private ispace Resilience lander is ready for a moon landing attempt at 3:17 p.m. ET on Thursday (June 5). Update for 5 p.m. ET: The Japanese company ispace attempted to land its Resilience ...

While technology has advanced in the past five decades, the fundamental challenges of landing on the moon remain the same. Here’s what Resilience has had to overcome — and what it has yet to face.

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 ...

People await the update on ispace's private lunar lander's attempt to touch down on the moon Friday, June 6, 2025, in Tokyo, Japan. Kyodo News/AP hide caption ...

Employees of ‘ispace’ react as they wait for the signal from the touchdown of its lunar lander Resilience on the Moon at a venue to watch its landing in Tokyo, Japan, June 6, 2025. REUTERS ...