A small, privately-funded Japanese spacecraft attempted to land on the moon Tuesday, but flight controllers in Tokyo lost contact with the craft during the final minutes of its descent when it ...

Russia's space agency said on Friday that all systems of lunar landing space craft that blasted off Friday were working normally hours after it detached from a booster module. All communications with ...

Intuitive Machines' Odysseus moon-craft took this photo about 35 seconds after tipping over during its landing approach. Credit: Intuitive Machines A U.S. business and the next generation of moonbound ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Landing a spacecraft on the moon has long been a series of hits and misses. The latest casualty came this week after Intuitive Machines put another lander sideways on the ...

India's Chandrayaan-3 lunar lander successfully landed on the moon Wednesday, just days after a Russian lunar mission to the same area ended in disaster. India is now the first country in the world to ...

TALLINN, Estonia — A rocket carrying a lunar landing craft blasted off Friday on Russia’s first moon mission in nearly 50 years, racing to land on Earth’s satellite ahead of an Indian spacecraft. The ...

The first new rocket set to carry astronauts to the moon launched in a major test of Elon Musk's latest Starship.

MOSCOW, Aug 13 (Reuters) - Russia on Sunday switched on the scientific instruments aboard its lunar lander and scientists began processing its first data as the space craft sped towards the moon in a ...

Landing a spacecraft on the moon has long been a series of hits and misses.Now, a U.S. company has become the first private outfit to achieve a safe moon landing. Only five countries have done ...