The core stage of NASA's next Space Launch System (SLS) rocket recently completed integration with the vehicle's side ...

As Firefly Aerospace prepared to close out a two-week mission on the moon, its lander had one final gift to beam home: the ...

or NASA's Lunar Instrumentation for Subsurface Thermal Exploration with Rapidity (LISTER) payload. This scientific instrument is a pneumatic, gas-powered drill developed by Texas Tech University ...

A total lunar eclipse is expected to take place around midnight Thursday and continue into the morning for around, six hours, ending at 6 a.m. Friday, according to NASA. A total lunar eclipse occurs ...

NASA, in partnership with the Italian Space Agency, has successfully acquired and tracked Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) signals on the Moon, marking a major milestone in lunar navigation.

During a lunar eclipse, Earth’s shadow obscures the moon, according to NASA. Lunar eclipses happen when Earth is positioned exactly between the moon and the sun, NASA says. When that occurs ...

the Service Module, which provides power and propulsion; and the Lunar Module, which is used for landing on the Moon. The spacecraft operates with a launch escape system for safety, and the lunar ...

But given that lunar spacecraft are solar-powered, how do they survive when they're cut off from the sun? For NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO), which has been orbiting the moon since 2009 ...

Maybe that’s why there’s a surprising homeliness to Kit Butler’s place in Oxford ... the fact that he’s model-beautiful almost an inconvenient snag in the plan. When he was scouted ...

As part of the company’s second Moon delivery for NASA under the agency’s CLPS (Commercial Lunar Payload Services) initiative and Artemis campaign, the IM-2 mission included a drill to bring ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Video of a private lunar lander carrying a drill, vacuum and other experiments for NASA touching down on the ...

Athena, the private lunar lander that touched down on the moon Thursday, has been declared dead. The two moon landings this week are part of NASA’s commercial lunar delivery program meant to get ...