Intuitive Machines, which landed on the moon with its robotic IM-1 mission in February 2024, will be launching IM-2 as soon as January, also on a Falcon 9. The mission is optimized for the lunar south ...

These are exciting times in space exploration, as more and more countries and private enterprises are mastering technology ...

The Blue Ghost lunar lander, built by the Texas-based company Firefly Aerospace for NASA, launched to space on Jan. 15, and ...

Key artefacts include the pristine footprint left by Buzz Aldrin at Tranquility Base, the site of the first moon landing in ...

Built by Firefly Aerospace and Ispace, the pair of spacecraft will land separately in the moon's northern latitudes, conduct ...

Two landers owned by US and Japanese companies to carry out separate tests on the Moon's surface.

Other nations, such as the Soviet Union and China, have also retrieved small quantities of moon rocks through robotic missions. The U.S. gifted hundreds of lunar samples to various nations and U.S ...

The launch comes as NASA aims to put a human on the moon again before the end of the decade - something last achieved in 1972.

They are the latest in a growing number of commercial missions to the ... outfit to put a lander on the Moon, a feat only previously accomplished by the US, the Soviet Union, China, India and ...

Intuitive Machines, which landed on the moon with its robotic IM-1 mission in February 2024 ... is bidding to join Russia (and the former Soviet Union), the United States and China as having ...