While Resilience and Blue Ghost are in orbit and preparing to leave for the moon, another lunar lander — Intuitive Machines ' IM-2, or Athena — recently arrived at Cape Canaveral to loaded atop of a ...

The RPS uses two Stirling engines to convert the heat generated by the decay of Plutonium-238 (Pu-238) into electricity.

The European PULSAR research project, conducted between 2022 and 2024, has disclosed the conceptual design for a plutonium-238 (Pu-238)-fuelled ...

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

China plans to land humans on the moon by 2030. See animations of the crew on the moon with a lander and rover. Credit: China ...

Explore how 3D printing, robotics, and AI are paving the way for sustainable moon bases amid unique challenges.

A new device developed by Chinese researchers enables high-definition, 3D surface modeling for both land and water, supporting environmental ... collect farmland data and generate precise 3D crop ...

iSpace from Japan is launching its second attempt at a moon landing with Hakuto-R Mission 2 (Japanese for “white rabbit”). Among other things, the Resilience lander has a food production ...

"The mission is now in the hands of the unstoppable Firefly team." This is the first lunar lander built by Firefly, which got its start in the rocket business. Firefly launches its own small-class ...

It's take 2 for the Tokyo-based ispace, whose first lander crashed into the moon two years ago. This time, it has a rover on board with a scoop to gather up lunar dirt for study and plans to test ...

A suite of NASA scientific investigations and technology demonstrations is on the way to the moon aboard a commercial lunar lander launched earlier Wednesday. The lander, named Blue Ghost and ...

The moon is about to gain its first tiny house. Launching on a Japanese lunar lander is the "Moonhouse," a project by Mikael Genberg 25 years in the making.