Airbus has won a contract to build the lander for Europe's first Mars rover. The UK firm has replaced Russia's space agency ...

The instruments carried by the lander performed many first-of-their kind science and technology demonstrations, including ...

The spacecraft, about the size of a small car, conducted a series of experiments. It drilled three feet into the lunar soil, took X-ray images of the magnetic bubble that surrounds and protects Earth ...

While most previous probes have used landing zones about 10 ... At an altitude of 5 km, the lander was in a vertical descent mode, then at 50 meters above the surface, SLIM was supposed to make ...

The private US lander Blue Ghost has captured pictures ... The phenomenon was first spotted by Nasa’s Surveyor probes in the 1960s and later observed by Apollo astronauts. Kearns noted that ...

A thermal probe on the Chandrayaan-3’s Vikram lander suggests that ice may be present a few centemetres below the Moon’s surface on many locations near the polar regions 1. At the site the ...