Then, China's Change-4 spacecraft touched down on the farside of the Moon earlier this year. If their landing had worked, Israel would have been the latest nation to join this elite club.

He vowed that Israel would attempt the moon landing again in the future. The spacecraft lost power in its main engine after sending a selfie from 22 kilometers (nearly 14 miles) above the surface ...

Israel is now the fourth country ... two and a half months for SpaceIL's lander to actually get to the moon. A successful landing could be our next small step towards a manned mission to Mars.

The team wants to prove a small nation with limited resources, such as Israel, can still accomplish great things. The demanding task of landing on the moon has so far been reserved for superpower ...

is on track to pull off the first commercial lunar landing early next year. This would make Israel the fourth country to soft-land a spacecraft on the moon; only the US, Russia, and China have ...

which offered financial incentives in 2007 to any non-government-funded team that could pull off a Moon landing. None of the groups that entered the competition managed to meet its deadlines and ...

17 gave insights into four teams that attempted moon landings over the past year ... Machines had conversations with an engineer from Israel's private Beresheet lander mission, which crashed ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — China and India scored moon landings, while Russia, Japan and Israel ended up in the lunar trash heap. Now two private companies are hustling to get the U.S. back in ...

the first Israeli spacecraft to attempt a moon landing. NASA and the Israel Space Agency (ISA) agreed to cooperatively utilize the spacecraft last October, including sharing data from the ...

The targeted landing site was a cratered terrain next to a 5km-high mountain complex known as Malapert. It's the southernmost point on the Moon ever visited by a spacecraft, at 80 degrees South.