India is making major strides in space exploration with its Chandrayaan-3 mission, aiming to land a rover on the Moon’s south ...

As per Jaxa, the rover will carry seven main payloads. The first payload, Resource Investigating Water Analyser (REIWA) will have the Lunar Thermogravimetric Analyser (LTGA), Triple-reflection ...

Kamoʻoalewa is possibly a chunk of the moon blasted into space following an ... approach used by both NASA’s OSIRIS-REx and JAXA’s Hayabusa2, and an anchor-and-attach system featuring drills ...

Lunar-VISE includes three instruments on the rover, the Visible Near-InfraRed ... mission specialist JAXA astronaut Satoshi Furukawa, and mission specialist Roscosmos cosmonaut Konstantin Borisov.

The Resilience lander, a partnership with Japan's space agency JAXA, is taking a long way to ... launch window opens at 4:00 p.m. CT. NASA moon rover and orbiter delivery: Feb. 26 Intuitive ...

The story of VIPER, with its twists and turns, proves the wisdom of NASA’s turn to the commercial sector for partnerships ...

Last year, NASA canceled the VIPER (“Volatiles Investigating Polar Exploration Rover”) in a move that scandalized proponents of a return to the moon. The space agency was just $84 million ...

Chandrayaan-4, ISRO's next Moon mission, aims to collect and return lunar samples to Earth using an advanced module system.

The moon's orbit is elliptical, or oval-shaped, meaning as its distance from our planet changes, its apparent size changes, too — but only slightly. If you're an avid moon-watcher, you might ...

But according to new estimates, it may have an even smaller chance of hitting the moon instead. An asteroid that's big enough to wipe out a city has a 1-in-43 chance of hitting our planet in the ...