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Giant step for India: Country joins elite club as Chandrayaan-3 makes soft landing on Moon
India has scripted history as ISRO's ambitious third Moon mission Chandrayaan-3's Lander Module (LM…
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India's moon lander separates from main Chandrayaan-3 spacecraft
Indian space agency on Thursday afternoon successfully detached the moon lander from the main space…
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The first US moon lander in more than 50 years launched with human remains on board, paving the way for space burials
A US mission hasn't landed on the moon since the Apollo in 1972. Peregrine may become the first in…
Marianne Guenot
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China's historic moon mission is just the start of its plans to dominate space
China's Chang'e-6 lunar probe successfully returned to Earth carrying the first-ever samples from …
Tom Porter
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Space photos from 5 recent moon-landing missions show how tiny engineering errors can cause big problems, like crashing or landing sideways
Moon landings are so complex that even the tiniest mistakes have caused missions to crash or burn. …
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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ISRO moves Chandrayaan-3 propulsion module to orbit around Earth in unique experiment
The Propulsion Module (PM) of Chandrayaan-3 has been moved from an orbit around the Moon to an orbi…
PTI
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NASA is back on the moon with the first commercial lunar landing ever
Intuitive Machines' Odysseus lander is the first US spacecraft to land on the moon in more than 50 …
Ellyn Lapointe,Morgan McFall-…
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Why Russia and India both crashed near the moon's south pole before India nailed the first soft landing there
Moon landings are rapid, complex, uncertain events where mission operators have no ability to inter…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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Japanese company ispace fears its probe crashed into the moon, failing to snag the first private lunar landing
The ispace mission was carrying a rover for the UAE and a robot for Japan's space agency. No privat…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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Chandrayaan-3 to take it giant leap on Friday with more fuel & fail-safe measures
India's space agency, the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), is preparing to launch the Cha…
PTI
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Watch the video of Intuitive Machines and NASA landing on the moon and hitting a snag, with $118 million on the line
Intuitive Machine's Odysseus lander touched down on the moon on Thursday. NASA's livestream of miss…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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Space enthusiast helps NASA locate Vikram lander's crash site on the moon
"Subramanian contacted the LRO project with positive identification of debris. After recei…
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The moon is open for business, and entrepreneurs are racing to make billions
As NASA aims to stay on the moon, private firms are racing to be the first to go where no company h…
Marianne Guenot
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Here's why Chandrayaan 2's soft landing on the Moon will be the '15 most terrifying minutes' for ISRO
But, it won’t be easy. The craters may hold the key to a lot of unanswered questions a…
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Chandrayaan-3 most significant milestone for planetary exploration: former ISRO chief
The scheduled timing for the soft landing of Chandrayaan-3 on the moon's south pole on August 23, 2…
ANI
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Japan is close to becoming the 3rd nation to land on the moon in the 21st century. The US isn't one of them.
Japan's space agency just inserted its SLIM moon lander into lunar orbit, weeks away from a histori…
Jessica Orwig
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How India landed on the moon and flew to Mars at a fraction of the cost of NASA and Russia missions
India reached the moon's south polar region before anyone else, on a budget, by starting small and …
Morgan McFall-Johnsen,Maiya F…
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NASA photographed the crash site of Israel's failed moon lander, and it's not pretty
"Despite the mishap, it is important to remember that Beresheet was the first spacecraft developed …
Dave Mosher
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India lost contact with its moon lander, and an astronomer thinks the spacecraft crashed into the lunar surface
"Those screens reported the spacecraft was 1.09 kilometers [0.6 miles] above the surface, traveling…