Lunar Trailblazer is part of a growing list of probes and landers heading toward the moon to search for water ice. LITTLETON, Colorado — A university-led lunar orbiter designed to pinpoint the ...

The probe landed in northern China on Tuesday afternoon in the Inner Mongolian region. “I now declare that the Chang’e 6 Lunar Exploration Mission achieved complete success,” Zhang Kejian ...

Japan’s space agency announced on Jan. 22 that its lunar probe, which landed on the moon two days earlier, has transmitted flight data and images back to Earth. The Japan Aerospace Exploration ...

The SLIM probe made a near-perfect soft landing on the lunar surface while calculating possible risks from cameras mounted on the spacecraft. At mission control, technicians could only monitor ...

The propulsion unit of the Luna-25 automatic lunar probe operated for 127 seconds during ... Borisov said in a live broadcast on the Rossiya-24 television channel on Monday.

Just last month, NASA launched a small probe called the Lunar Flashlight toward the moon. The small probe was expected to test a new green propellant on its four-month voyage to the moon ...

Illustration showing the Lunar Trailblazer probe on the prowl to probe the abundance and distribution of water on the moon, as well as the lunar water cycle. | Credit: Lockheed Martin LITTLETON ...

NCU's Deep Space Radiation Probe (DSRP) was aboard the HAKUTO-R Mission 2 lunar lander developed by Japanese space exploration company ispace and launched from Florida at 1:11am on Wednesday last week ...

One probe is from Texas-based Firefly Aerospace Inc. Its so-called Blue Ghost marks Firefly’s first foray into lunar exploration and the company will attempt a landing on the moon in about 45 days.