NASA and Draper have terminated plans for a lunar lander mission after significant delays in development of the spacecraft.

Before Artemis astronauts land on the moon's surface in 2028, NASA will conduct the Artemis III demonstration mission in 2027 ...

Astrobotic has publicly unveiled its Griffin-1 lunar lander — the vehicle NASA has selected to deliver one of the heaviest cargo loads ever sent to the lunar surface — as part of the agency's emerging ...

Four U.S. companies are targeting lunar landings in 2026, including Astrobotic, Blue Origin, Firefly Aerospace, and Intuitive Machines. The missions are part of NASA's Commercial Lunar Payload ...

There is a chamber at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston that is, in its own way, one of the most extraordinary rooms on Earth. Chamber A is one of the largest thermal vacuum facilities in the ...

By Joey Roulette WASHINGTON, June 30 (Reuters) - NASA on Tuesday awarded $590 million worth of contracts to Astrobotic, Firefly Aerospace and Intuitive Machines for more uncrewed lunar lander missions ...

WASHINGTON — Voyager Technologies will acquire Astrobotic, a company developing lunar landers and reusable suborbital vehicles, in a deal worth up to $300 million. The companies announced early June 2 ...

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 ...

Only months separate us from the moment when American space agency NASA, aided by a long list of commercial partners, will begin realizing its dream of building a permanent base on the Moon, the new ...

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China’s Manned Space Engineering Network says the country’s first crewed lunar lander last week completed a comprehensive landing and takeoff verification test ...

Before humans even step foot on the surface of the moon in the years ahead, a fleet of lunar landers are due to beat them there. Already, three landers manufactured by two different Texas companies ...