The second-ever commercial landing on the moon comes amid a flurry of lunar exploration activity that will see around a dozen ...

MAPP, built by the Colorado company Lunar Outpost, will touch down aboard Intuitive Machines' Athena lander at 12:32 p.m. ET ...

“The moon is an incredible place for science ... that are designed by the same people that design our rocket engines,” Kim said. “That reduces risk and leverages a lot of the commonality ...

Intuitive Machines' second moon lander was launched on Wednesday atop a SpaceX rocket, setting off for the latest private U.S. moonshot one year after the company's first attempt ended early with a ...

Meanwhile, the EU celebrated a successful satellite deployment on the second launch of its Ariane 6 rocket from French Guiana ...

In this new study, the research team wondered how much energy would be needed to convert the moon's regolith into rocket fuel, and then to transport it to a space-based gas station. Prior research ...

Never before have so many spacecraft angled for the moon’s surface all at once. Last month, U.S. and Japanese companies shared a rocket and separately launched landers toward Earth's sidekick.

Headquartered in Long Beach, California, Rocket Lab designs and manufactures the Electron ... been selected to support NASA missions to the Moon and Mars, as well as the first private commercial ...