The second lunar lander from Japanese space exploration company ispace snapped a stunning image of the Earth as it prepares for its journey to the moon.

Landing site: Near the Shackleton Crater ... spacecraft will circle the moon to remotely map different forms of water on the lunar surface. Type of craft: Orbiter. Launch: Early ...

A chunk of space rock that visited near Earth's orbit last year ... smaller asteroids. If a lunar asteroid could be linked to a specific impact crater on the moon, studying it could unveil secrets ...

Credit: Chinese Academy of Sciences HELSINKI — China could look to laser power transmission from lunar orbit to supply spacecraft on the moon and solve ... shadowed craters, thought to hold ...

After its close approach to the Earth, 2024 PT5 is slowly receding away in its new, more distant orbit ... moon’s surface, he said. If scientists can link lunar asteroids to specific craters ...