Related: New Shepard: Rocket for space tourism During the flight, the capsule created "lunar gravity forces" — a first for a New Shepard mission. It did so by rotating about 11 times per minute ...

This week, follow the journeys of two lunar landers, meet “woolly mice,” see the oldest known bone tools, and more.

Intuitive Machines, a Houston company aiming to repeat a 2024 landing, said its spacecraft, Athena, has power and is communicating but may not be upright. It is unclear how that might impact the ...

Blue Ghost conducted the DOI on the far side of the Moon, which caused a communications blackout with Earth. The spacecraft ...

An American commercial company became the first to stick a perfect moon landing early Sunday when Firefly Aerospace sent its Blue Ghost lander down to the surface.

A privately owned lunar lander has touched down near the moon's south pole. But flight controllers in Texas fear it may have ...

Feb. 26, NASA's Lunar Trailblazer will help resolve an enduring mystery: Where is the moon's water? After sharing a ride on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket with Intuitive Machines' IM-2 launch—part of NASA's ...

There might not be any gravity on the Moon, but shares of Intuitive Machines (LUNR) are being crushed by it after its second ...

Before arriving at the moon, the small satellite mission will use the gravity of the sun, Earth, and moon over several months to gradually line up for capture into lunar orbit. NASA's Lunar ...

Learn about NASA's Lunar Trailblazer and IM-2, two missions that will soon launch into space to find clues on the presence of ...

The flyby is a gravity assist that will save the spacecraft fuel as it prepares to land on the moon. The second lunar lander from Japanese space exploration company ispace is ready for a flyby of ...

California-based asteroid mining company AstroForge shared on Thursday that its Odin spacecraft, which ventured to space a week and a half ago with Intuitive Machines’ Athena lunar lander ...