Intuitive Machines’ lander, named Athena, caught a lift with SpaceX from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center. It’s taking a fast ...

What's the story of our Moon's early history? Despite all we know about our closest natural satellite, scientists are still ...

The rock tour has officially been canceled. After two months of observations, NASA scientists have officially declared Earth ...

Now, Firefly is about to find out if its lunar program is a technical success. Landing on the Moon is risky. In the last decade, the success rate for lunar landing attempts is a little above 50 ...

Currently in low lunar orbit, the spacecraft is passing within 60 miles of the moon’s surface and has ... and no plate tectonics to recycle rocks from the surface. That means that the history ...

The bottoms of hundreds of craters at the moon's South Pole ... Some water also may be locked inside broken rock and dust on the lunar surface. Analysis: Bob's Blog This robotic, solar-powered ...

Its destination is the moon, where NASA and the company hope ... at a time. The regolith, or lunar rock and soil, will be placed onto the surface where it will be studied and any volatile data ...

Intuitive Machines second NASA-backed lunar lander mission will deliver scientific instruments to hunt for water under the moon's surface.

Some water may also be trapped in lunar dust and rock. The spacecraft will perform moon flybys before settling into an orbit 100 km above the surface. It will capture high-resolution images and ...

In February 2024, an American spacecraft landed on the moon for the first time in more than 50 years and ushered in a new era of lunar exploration defined by commercial enterprise. The landing ...