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

Should all go to plan, those footers — which each have a different design ... moon's south pole, as soon as a week after leaving Earth. Liftoff of the IM-2 mission atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket ...

For only the second time in history, a private company’s lunar lander has successfully touched down on the moon—and the images it’s sent home are stunning. Built by Texas-based Firefly Aerospace, the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

A robotic lunar lander built by Texas-based Firefly has successfully landed on the moon, becoming only the second ...