While SpaceX is not the sole new launch company, it has set the pace for reducing the cost and increasing the reliability of ...

The research established a dynamics model that incorporates factors ... which is crucial for the success of future lunar missions[4][5]. Soft Landing: A landing technique that allows a spacecraft ...

While Resilience and Blue Ghost are in orbit and preparing to leave for the moon, another lunar lander — Intuitive Machines ' IM-2, or Athena — recently arrived at Cape Canaveral to loaded atop of a ...

Recent photos taken by India’s Space Research Organization moon orbiter, known as Chandrayaan 2, clearly show the Apollo 11 and Apollo 12 landing sites more than 50 years later. The photos were ...

Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost lander, a private spacecraft hired by NASA to take experiments to the moon, is flying laps ...

To get it in your inbox, sign up for free here. Landing on the moon is one of the most challenging things humanity has attempted. Perhaps that’s part of what drives us to keep trying.

The launch may not have had the headline-grabbing power of last year's historic lunar landing, which drew attention both for the fact that America had not landed a craft on the moon in decades and ...

This week, explore the latest chapter of the new moon race, uncover extinct creatures that may be revived, get up close with ...