The foundation said the grant would support SpaceIL's Beresheet 2 program and advance the goal of landing an unmanned Israeli spacecraft on the lunar surface.

The team was awarded the prize at the 2019 Visioneering Summit in Los Angeles hosted by XPrize.

The image shows what NASA believes is the spot where the Beresheet spacecraft crashed into the moon on April 11.

Watch parties and live streams await as Israel gears up to become the 4th country to complete a lunar landing.

At 9:00 AM Israel Time yesterday (2:00 AM ET), Beresheet, the Israeli spacecraft that is making its way to the moon, successfully completed another maneuver to make final adjustments before leaving Earth’s orbit and joining the moon’s orbit. In the maneuver, SpaceIL and IAI engineering teams started and ran the spacecraft’s engines for 72 seconds. […]

Israel's lunar lander Beresheet has taken a number of images and clips during its journey which it expects to complete by April 11.

The global space community sees Israel’s first moonshot as a window to future commercial spacecraft ventures.

The lunar spacecraft, dubbed 'Beresheet,' will be added as a secondary payload by service provider Spaceflight and will be launched on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket.

The time capsule contains hundreds of files that include details on the spacecraft, Israel's Declaration of Independence and its national anthem, songs, literature, artwork, and a copy of the bible, among other gems.

Sylvan Adams, who helped build the Mideast’s first indoor velodrome and brought the Giro d’Italia to Israel this summer, is now joining efforts to land an Israeli spacecraft on the moon.

The Israeli startup is planning to land an unmanned spacecraft on the moon by February 2019 to become the 4th country in the world to do so.

The March 31, 2018 deadline for nabbing the grand prize came and went with none of the 5 finalists, including Israel, landing their spacecraft on the moon, but it's not stopping some.

Over the past few weeks, Israeli scientists got a taste of life on the Red Planet in a desert habitat and SpaceIL's quest to put an Israeli spacecraft on the moon was put back on track.