On Monday (Jan. 8), the first private American moon spacecraft, Astrobotic's Peregrine lander, successfully launched from Florida on the first-ever mission of United Launch Alliance's Vulcan Centaur ...

NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) recently bounced a laser off India's Vikram moon lander, marking a space-communications first. Vikram touched down near the lunar south pole on Aug. 23, 2023 ...

Italian Space Agency and iSpace-Europe to deploy the palm-sized optical device on the dark side of the Moon. ispace-Europe and the Italian Space Agency (ASI) have signed a deal to transport a compact ...

An orbiting instrument named LOLA succeeded in sending a laser beam to ping India's Vikram lander on the lunar surface. Reading time 2 minutes NASA’s diligent lunar orbiter transmitted a laser beam to ...

In February 2024, an American spacecraft landed on the moon for the first time in more than 50 years and ushered in a new era of lunar exploration defined by commercial enterprise. The landing ...

An additional NASA payload known as the Lunar Retroreflector Array experiment may have survived the crash of Israel's Beresheet moon lander on April 11, scientists revealed. With the Beresheet moon ...

LUXEMBOURG--(BUSINESS WIRE)--ispace EUROPE S.A. (ispace-EUROPE), the Luxembourg-based subsidiary of ispace, inc., and the Italian Space Agency (ASI) have signed a payload services agreement to ...

NASA delivered the first flight hardware for the Lunar Pathfinder mission to ESA (European Space Agency), which formally accepted the instrument on Nov. 4. NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in ...

NASA/GSFC intends to purchase an Engineering Model and two (2) Flight Laser Retroflector Arrays from ITE, Inc pursuant to the requirements of FAR 13.106, for the acquisition of supplies or services ...

NASA's objective was for the experiment to only last for five years. The Apollo 11 crew didn't just just accomplish landing on the lunar surface and returning safely — the men also conducted several ...