One mission would send a state-of-the-art lunar rover, in development by Japan's Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), to the moon aboard a Starship cargo lander as soon as fiscal year 2032.

The autonomous 55-pound (25-kilogram) rover is called IDEFIX and is part of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency's (JAXA) Martian Moon Exploration (MMX) probe that aims to collect samples of the ...

Firefly's Blue Ghost lander, originally scheduled to lift off in late 2024, is on its maiden voyage. The uncrewed spacecraft ...

NASA is moving ahead with plans to partner with a company to deliver a rover to the surface of the moon after the agency ...

We are very proud of being the first lunar rover to be fully completed in Europe ... or better known as JAXA. The first mission did capture stunning photos of Earth while the spacecraft was ...

A public relations official of Toyota, which is developing a manned lunar rover for the NASA-led Artemis program in which JAXA is participating, said, “Please contact JAXA on the matter.” ...

JAXA researcher Kawai Yuta says he can't wait ... ispace is part of a private-sector boom in lunar exploration. A lunar rover the firm developed was a finalist in a contest run by entities ...

It does, however, provide funds for projects imagined elsewhere. And that's how Tenacious, Europe's first-ever Moon rover, came to be. The tiny machine (more on that in a bit) is the work of a ...

Credit: China Lunar Exploration Program/China National Space Administration. HELSINKI — China’s Yutu-2 rover, part of the first ever mission to land on the far side of the moon, may have made ...