Blue Ghost's final descent to the Moon is tentatively scheduled for March 2. The target landing site is in Mare Crisium, an ancient 350-mile-wide (560-kilometer) impact basin in the northeast part of ...

Griffin's upcoming debut will be the second lunar mission for Astrobotic. The company's smaller Peregrine moon lander ...

A collection of Martian rocks could reveal details about potential past life on the Red Planet – but first NASA has to get them back to Earth.

Type of craft: Lander and rover. Who's doing it?ispace, a Japanese lunar robotic exploration company. Launched: Jan. 15. Launch vehicle: SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket. Launch site ...

The retrieval craft would then transfer its treasures to a smaller rocket, which would carry them to orbit and rendezvous with yet another rocket for return to Earth, where yet another lander ...

A SpaceX rocket has blasted off from Florida carrying two privately constructed lunar landers and a micro rover to the Moon. The uncrewed Falcon 9 launched from the Kennedy Space Center on Wednesday.

Private Moon company Astrobotic’s mission has new life after finding a match made in heaven with its new customer, Astrolab, following NASA’s decision to pull the plug on the agency’s VIPER Moon rover ...

The rover's 26th sample, known as "Silver Mountain," has textures "unlike anything we've seen before," NASA says.

The more traditional option would involve the sky crane system, which is the same method that used a hovering rocket to lower NASA’s Perseverance and Curiosity rovers via cable onto the Martian ...

NASA partners with private companies to search for lunar water ice, a key factor for future human exploration of the moon ...