Japan’s Moon Sniper mission by JAXA set a new standard for precision in space travel. Explore the engineering feat and its ...

Daichi Fujii from the Hiratsuka City Museum in Japan captured a meteor impact the moon with multiple telescopes. Credit: ...

On Monday (Jan. 27), Texas-based Firefly released two photos of the moon that Blue Ghost captured from Earth orbit. One shows ...

Two moon landers, one from Japan's ispace and another from U.S. space firm Firefly, began their journeys into space on Wednesday with SpaceX's unusual double moonshot launch, underscoring the global ...

The two landers rocketed away in the middle of the night from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center, the latest in a stream of private spacecraft aiming for the moon.

Firefly's "Blue Moon" and ispace's "Resilience" are the latest in an ongoing push to gain private-sector experience exploring ...

Japan’s population is the oldest in the world, with few young people working in agriculture. But now its farmers are getting ...

SpaceX launched Japan’s ispace Resilience and the US-based Firefly Blue Ghost as part of the global effort to explore the ...

NASA partners with private companies to search for lunar water ice, a key factor for future human exploration of the moon ...

If you buy through a BGR link, we may earn an affiliate commission, helping support our expert product labs. Japan’s attempts to become the fourth country to reach the Moon have failed ...

SpaceX has sent Japanese and U.S. lunar landers on separate missions in a major step in the race to commercialize the Moon.

A tiny red Swedish-style cottage is set to become the Moon’s first "building," part of an ambitious art project now en route ...