Watch the dramatic descent and successful moon landing of Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost lunar lander.

On the other were two more figures in space suits, with the tiniest Stars and Stripes planted in the lunar soil. Cruz ...

An artist’s conception shows the Orion spacecraft’s main engine firing during a lunar flyby, surrounded by eight auxiliary engines built by L3Harris’ Aerojet Redmond facility. (NASA Illustration) ...

As the Orion, the world’s most advanced deep-space capsule, counts down to circumnavigating the Moon, that trek could be the forerunner to a cascade of Mars missions in the 2030s. Shown here is a ...

Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos are racing to put humans back on the moon for the first time in 50 years. New NASA boss Jared Isaacman said the agency will pick whichever company finishes its lunar lander ...

To win the superpower race to the Moon, the U.S. could launch a super-speed crusade to develop a lander that beats Chinese taikonauts to the lunar surface. Shown here is Lockheed's leading-edge Orion ...

Russia's first lunar lander mission in 47 years ended in failure when Luna-25 crashed into the moon. Credit: Space.com | footage and animation courtesy: Roscosmos | edited by Steve Spaleta Donald ...

Private companies are testing new power systems for longer rover missions and future human lunar habitats. By Mack DeGeurin Published Dec 11, 2025 1:08 PM EST Get the Popular Science daily ...

The Blue Moon Mark 1 (MK1) lunar lander is big, beautiful, and preparing to launch within the next four months. Can Blue Origin actually pull this off? Reading time 3 minutes Riding the high of its ...

LYON, France–The European Space Agency (ESA) will request €600 million ($691.8 million) from member states at a ministerial council later this month for the first cargo mission of the Argonaut lunar ...

Artemis III is NASA’s mission intended to return astronauts to the moon. The plan has been to use SpaceX’s still-experimental Starship — the most powerful rocket system ever built — for the last leg ...

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