Four uncrewed lunar lander missions are set for 2026, paving the way for NASA's Artemis program to return humans to the moon.

Ernie Wright, a science visualizer at NASA, explains why the moon turns red during a lunar eclipse. Wright also explains how ...

A team of US astronomers using NASA’s ShadowCam instrument has found scant evidence of abundant water ice sitting near the ...

Spacecraft beats out Boom Supersonic's XB-1 demonstrator, Wing's drone delivery service, and other nominees.

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A “red alert” involving the private Blue Ghost mission in lunar orbit a year ago highlights a growing number of incidents ...

New observations by a team of US astronomers have cast fresh doubt on whether the lunar surface could host abundant water ice. Publishing their results in Science Advances, a team led by Shuai Li at ...

SpaceX's lunar lander has run into a snag and may not be ready for a mission to the moon that was scheduled for 2027, according to a report by Space News. The company's Starship Human Landing System ...

A picture is worth a thousand words. Or, in this case, $504 million. At least, that’s what it cost to build the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO), NASA’s robotic spacecraft that is currently orbiting ...

Luna 25’s story is one of ambition thwarted by planetary geopolitics. Yet it fuels ongoing lunar pursuits. The United States finds itself in the middle of a new space race. This time, that race is ...

Luna 9's landing was a pivotal moment in history. Airwolfhound via Wikimedia Commons under CC-BY-2.0 On February 3, 1966, a Soviet spacecraft called Luna 9 showed the world it was possible to land on ...