Pittsburgh-based company Astrobotic has found a replacement rover to fly on the first-ever mission of its Griffin moon lander. Griffin was originally supposed to deliver NASA's ice-hunting VIPER ...

A bevy of space companies will lend a hand to NASA's moon goals under new contracts centered around the agency's upcoming Artemis missions. Nine companies in seven states are now engaged ...

The Commercial Lunar Payload Services program is proceeding apace with the Firefly mission on its way to the moon and a second Intuitive Machines flight scheduled for launch in late February.

Feb. 4 (UPI) --Blue Origin's New Shepard rocket and spacecraft completed its moon-gravity mission, but the capsule appeared to have a slight hiccup on its return when one of its parachutes did not ...

Astrolab CEO Jaret Matthews said the Griffin mission will help the company learn more about how the rovers operate in real lunar conditions. "Bringing FLIP to the Moon offers an opportunity to ...

All but one of the lunar module pilots, in contrast, underwent deep and lasting personal transformations (some of which were profoundly unpleasant) after their Moon missions. Apollo 11 saw ...

China is advancing lunar exploration with the Chang'e-7 mission, deploying a flying robot to the moon's south pole to hunt for water. This mission utilizes a six-legged, rocket-propelled robot ...

They also confirmed the lunar mission would play a pivotal role in laying the groundwork for a future research station on the moon. The Chang’e-7 mission will consist of an orbiter, a lander ...

The robotic “flying detector” will be deployed to the lunar south pole as part of China’s Chang’e-7 mission, which aims to bring the country closer to landing astronauts on the moon within ...

It’s part of the agency’s Artemis program, an international plan to go to the moon and then Mars. Early Artemis missions are all essentially fancy repeats of what the Apollo program ...

Future missions could visit the basin and take rock samples to help scientists better understand the murky origins and history of the moon. Studying the moon also could reveal what conditions were ...