No one has been back to the moon for over 50 years, but the reasons why are multifaceted and not obvious at first glance.

Landing a spacecraft on the moon has long been a series of hits and misses.The latest casualty came this week after Intuitive Machines put another lander sideways on the moon through a NASA-sponsored ...

About five years ago, the Trump-appointed administrator of NASA, Jim Bridenstine, revealed the name of the program that would ...

It will enter orbit around the moon around May 6 and attempt a landing a month later at Mare Frigoris, or the Sea of Cold, in the moon’s northern hemisphere. This is Ispace’s second lunar mission.

The lunar lander, called Blue Ghost, settled onto the Moon's surface at 2:34 am CST (3:34 am EST; 08:34 UTC). A few dozen ...

After hours of uncertainty, officials from the Houston company said there are clues that the spacecraft is on its side, which could limit the mission’s scientific accomplishments.

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

The touchdown came one year after Intuitive's first moon lander, named Odysseus, landed on the moon while still moving sideways. A landing leg broke and the spacecraft tipped over on its side ...

It's lights out for the first private lunar lander to pull off a fully successful moon mission. Firefly Aerospace's Blue ...

About 40 minutes after landing, Blue Ghost’s first image of its new ... robotic exploration will pave the way for astronauts to return to the moon for the first time in 50 years under the Artemis ...

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 ...

Landing a spacecraft on the moon has long been a series of hits and misses. Last year, a spacecraft built by Intuitive Machines through a NASA-sponsored program put the U.S. back on the moon for ...