The original assumption was that commercial lunar landings would be, to use a basketball term, “shots on goal” with some of them failing.

Blue Ghost conducted the DOI on the far side of the Moon, which caused a communications blackout with Earth. The spacecraft ...

NASA Friday rolled out the new Artemis II Orion spacecraft and twin Space Launch System solid rocket boosters that will carry ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Landing a spacecraft on the moon has long been a series of hits and misses. The latest casualty ...

A new golden age of lunar exploration is in full swing, and the Moon is no longer the province of global superpowers alone.

Intuitive Machines' lunar lander has successfully touched down on the moon. NASA is still working to determine its position and location.

Among the NASA instruments are the Polar Resources Ice Mining Experiment-1, or PRIME-1, which comprises a drill and mass spectrometer to explore the Moon’s subsurface for traces of water ice. The ...

The mission comes four days after another commercial space company, Firefly Aerospace, successfully landed its spacecraft on ...

Intuitive Machines, a Houston company aiming to repeat a 2024 landing, said its spacecraft, Athena, has power and is communicating but may not be upright. It is unclear how that might impact the ...

After hours of uncertainty, officials from the Houston company said there are clues that the spacecraft is on its side, which ...

It was not until February 22, 2024, that another American-built spacecraft made a soft landing on the Moon. This was the Nova ...