Luna 9 was the first spacecraft to soft-land on the moon. In 1966, the main spacecraft ejected a 99-kg lander module that used a landing bag to survive impact. The problem is, given the technology ...

A second commercially-built moon lander, this one built by Houston-based Intuitive Machines, landed near the moon's south pole Thursday, but telemetry indicated it ended up on its side. The lander is ...

Espoo, FINLAND — China has completed an integrated landing and ascent test of its Lanyue lunar lander, marking a major milestone in its crewed moon landing program. The first integrated landing and ...

For the second time in less than a week, an uncrewed American lunar lander has touched down on the surface of Earth's celestial neighbor as NASA races to get humans back to the moon in the years ahead ...

A suggestion made last week by acting NASA administrator Sean Duffy that SpaceX could be booted from the agency’s upcoming moon-landing plans has rocked the space industry. Now, behind the scenes, ...

NASA acting Administrator Sean Duffy made two television appearances on Monday morning in which he shook up the space agency’s plans to return humans to the Moon. Speaking on Fox News, where the ...

Intuitive Machines, a Houston company aiming to repeat a 2024 landing, said its spacecraft, Athena, has power and is communicating but may not be upright. It is unclear how that might impact the ...