The world’s first privately-funded and operated lunar lander, an entrant in the defunct Google Lunar X-Prize competition, suffered a failure during a landing on the lunar surface. The Beresheet ...

JERUSALEM (JTA) — NASA released a photo of what it says is the crash site of Israel’s Beresheet lunar lander. The image taken some 56 miles from the surface of the moon by NASA’s Lunar ...

The close encounter was "a historic first of its type for a Japanese private, commercial lunar lander," according to ispace.

The lunar lander built by SpaceIL successfully launched ... After separating from the rocket, the SpaceIL craft, named “Beresheet,” Hebrew for Genesis, will travel around Earth in ...

Space IL built a 1,300-pound robotic spacecraft called "Beresheet," which is Hebrew ... to launch a robotic lander to the surface of the moon. Dave Mosher: This isn't just any SpaceX launch.

“We had a failure on the spacecraft,”… Read More A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket sent the Israeli-made Beresheet lunar lander on the first leg of its journey to the moon tonight, as a ride-along pa ...

Blue Ghost will spend the next 16 days in lunar orbit, if all goes to plan. It will conduct additional engine burns to circularize its path around Earth's nearest neighbor, then attempt a landing in ...

Israeli non-profit organisation SpaceIL launched its Beresheet lunar lander in 2019 but it crashed. And in April this year Japan's ispace was the latest company to try, and fail, at the historic ...

One week ago, a private lunar lander left the ground on a nearly 7-week journey to reach the surface of the moon. The launch may not have had the headline-grabbing power of last year's historic ...