In a breakthrough study recently published in Icarus a team of international researchers has harnessed the power of ...

Japanese company ispace plans to launch Mission 2, its second shot at landing on the moon, this December on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket.

ISpace's private Resilience Lander will attempt to touch down on the Mare Frigoris region of the moon 's surface on June 5, at 3:17 p.m. EDT (1817 GMT). While you won’t be able to see the lander ...

The moon is pictured half-lit during its first quarter phase. The locations of the Aristotles and Eudoxus craters are shown close to Mare Frigoris towards the north, while the Sea of Tranquility ...

Mare Frigoris is significantly flatter than the Atlas crater region, potentially offering easier-to-navigate terrain. Ispace said in a statement that the new landing site was chosen because it ...

Update for 5 p.m. ET: The Japanese company ispace attempted to land its Resilience moon lander on the plains of Mare Frigoris (Sea of Cold) on the moon today at 3:17 p.m. ET, but lost contact with ...

The images show a dark smudge where the lander, named Resilience, and its mini rover crashed into Mare Frigoris or Sea of Cold, a volcanic region in the moon’s far north. A faint halo around the ...

Mare Frigoris is significantly flatter than the Atlas crater region, potentially offering easier-to-navigate terrain. Ispace said in a statement that the new landing site was chosen because it ...

The Mare Frigoris, also known as the Cold Sea, is a region near the Moon’s north pole which scientists have been studying in depth. They completed a survey of more than 12,000 images showing the ...

This April a mission by ispace, a Japanese company, ended shortly after the HAKUTO-R spacecraft decided that it had reached the surface of Mare Frigoris while still 5km above it, and turned off ...

The study area, which is an elongated mare, Mare Frigoris and northern Mare Imbrium, was mapped and characterized into 27 units based on multi-source data, including spectrum, terrain, and element ...