Two landers manufactured by Firefly Aerospace and Intuitive Machines were briefly on the moon at the same time in March 2025.

NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman announced significant changes to the agency's Artemis program, which aims to land on the ...

In their recent announcement, NASA has made official what pretty much anyone following the Artemis lunar program could have ...

Japanese lunar company ispace said work on a new engine for its lunar landers is facing delays and that it is keeping open ...

With NASA rushing to land astronauts on the moon as soon as 2027 in a race to beat China, the space agency said it's reopening the competition to find the spacecraft that will return American ...

NASA shifts Artemis 3 to low Earth orbit in 2027, opening potential competition beyond SpaceX Starship as the agency revises lunar landing timelines and mission architecture.

SpaceX has recently pulled the curtains off a new, “simpler” moon lander, a move aimed at accelerating NASA’s Artemis missions. This streamlined version of the Starship lander is designed to ...

CAPE CANAVERAL—NASA is revising its Artemis lunar exploration initiative with a new mission to dock one or both human lunar ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- The Odysseus lunar lander, nicknamed "Odie" or IM-1, has embarked on a historic journey to the lunar surface - aiming to make the first touchdown of a US-made spacecraft on the ...

Acting NASA chief Sean Duffy surprised many people earlier this week when he said the space agency was intending to reopen the contracts for the Artemis III lunar lander that will return astronauts to ...

The effect of lunar regolith on Blue Ghost and its instruments, as well as other data, would be used for future Artemis missions. Credit: Firefly Aerospace Firefly Aerospace has sold data it collected ...

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