This week the SpaceIL project to send a spacecraft to the moon suffered a sad ending when the Beresheet craft crashed into the moon’s surface, rendering it inoperable. But the plucky Israeli team is ...

West Hollywood-based Wag Labs Inc. will lay off 54 employees beginning June 3, the Business Journal reports. The layoffs are the second round this year for Wag, which laid off 38 people from its ...

The Israeli organization SpaceIL will not be performing a lunar return for its second Beresheet mission after all, according to a recent tweet. "This time, we will not go to the moon," began the ...

A digital "time capsule" is installed on the SpaceIL lunar lander in a Dec. 17 ceremony marking the completion of the spacecraft. Credit: IAI WASHINGTON — A privately funded Israeli lunar lander ...

Google’s lunar moonshot contest may be dead, but that’s not stopping one company from trying to complete the goal anyway. Google’s contest sought to award the first private company that could land a ...

SpaceIL's Beresheet lander, seen here during pre-launch preparations, performed its first maneuver after launch Feb. 24. Credit: IAI WASHINGTON — SpaceIL’s recent decision not to mount a second lunar ...

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Update: 3:35 pm: The lander failed and crashed into the surface. With only seconds before touchdown, the spacecraft suffered a problem with the main engine followed by a communications failure. A few ...

TEL AVIV, Israel--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The Israeli SpaceIL team is one of five participants in the Google Lunar XPRIZE contest which will be won by the first contestant to reach the moon without ...