The RPS uses two Stirling engines to convert the heat generated by the decay of Plutonium-238 (Pu-238) into electricity.

The year 2025 puts us one quarter of the way through the 21st century. We'll spend the year looking back at some of the amazing advances we've experienced. In this episode: privatized space travel.

These are exciting times in space exploration, as more and more countries and private enterprises are mastering technology ...

The probe was launched aboard the Hakuto-R Mission 2 Resilience lunar lander developed by Japanese start-up ispace Inc on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket in Florida, the university said. National Central ...

Blue Origin’s lander, dubbed Blue Moon, will make its debut on the third lunar touchdown by astronauts. NASA Administrator Bill Nelson pushed for competing moon landers similar to the strategy ...

Lunar New Year — also commonly called Chinese New Year — marks the start of the new year based on lunar calendars, or monthly cycles of the moon's phases. The lunar new year starts with the ...

"The mission is now in the hands of the unstoppable Firefly team." This is the first lunar lander built by Firefly, which got its start in the rocket business. Firefly launches its own small-class ...

It's take 2 for the Tokyo-based ispace, whose first lander crashed into the ... the company achieved the first U.S. lunar touchdown in more than a half-century, landing sideways near the south ...

LOS ANGELES, Jan. 15 (Xinhua) -- A suite of NASA scientific investigations and technology demonstrations is on the way to the moon aboard a commercial lunar lander launched earlier Wednesday. The ...

The Forstner Komfit brings some mid-century cool to the ubiquitous smartwatch ... Gordon Jr. and Alan L.Bean pose in front of a lunar module in 1969, with Conrad and Gordon both sporting Komfit ...

In a statement, the Elon Musk-owned company noted that the Falcon 9 rocket launched Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost Mission 1 and Japan-based company Ispace’s RESILIENCE lunar lander. It added that a ...