The Tokyo-based company ispace declared the mission a failure several hours after communication was lost with the lander.

Japanese company ispace said its uncrewed moon lander likely crashed onto the lunar surface during its touchdown attempt on ...

The Resilience spacecraft went dark during its landing attempt on June 5, and likely hit the moon too fast. The company will ...

The loss of the Resilience spacecraft by Ispace repeated a crash into the moon in 2023 of the company’s first robotic lunar landing mission.

Astronomers have spotted a cosmic mismatch that has left them perplexed - a really big planet orbiting a really small star.

Under such scenarios, Mercury frequently crashes into the Sun or Venus, setting off cascading changes that alter the orbits ...

Astronomers are developing plans and technology for increasingly powerful space telescopes. For instance, NASA is working on its proposed Habitable Worlds Observatory, which would take ultrasharp ...

Scientists like to refer to our planet as residing in the "Goldilocks zone," where it's neither too hot nor too cold, and ...

Asteroids are the ancient remnants of our solar system's birth, rocky fragments that never formed into planets. Most of these ...

China's space agency says it has launched a spacecraft that promises to return samples from a pair of asteroids near Mars and yield "groundbreaking discoveries and expand humanity's knowledge of the ...

Simulations show that the stars’ tug could send Mercury, Venus or Mars crashing into Earth — or let Jupiter eject our world from the solar system.

Strauss' “Blue Danube” waltz is heading into space this month to mark the 200th anniversary of the composer's birth.