For decades, the European Space Agency (ESA) has been a sort of trusted sidekick for the much larger NASA. In some respects, that continues to this day, as ESA is backing the Americans' push for the ...

NASA has awarded Firefly Aerospace a $93.3 million contract to take a lunar lander module loaded with experiments to the surface of the moon. While the company will not be performing the launch itself ...

The same historic facilities that some 50 years ago prepared NASA's twin Voyager probes for their ongoing interstellar odyssey are helping to ready a towering commercial spacecraft for a journey to ...

America's most daring, extraordinary feat—landing astronauts on the moon—remains the pinnacle of achievement by anyone anywhere. Ever. And the lunar lander—a groundbreaking piece of America—is up ...

An Orion spacecraft approaches a Blue Moon Mark 2 lander prototype, part of the planned Artemis 3 mission. Credit: NASA HOUSTON — NASA has provided more details about the revised approaches that Blue ...

MILAN — The European Space Agency has tapped a consortium led by Thales Alenia Space Italy to develop its Argonaut lunar lander and has outlined a division of labor for the program across several ...

Apollo Lunar Modules -- Post-Apollo. Space Exploration Initiative ; Faster, Better, Cheaper ; Decadal Planning Team -- Return to exploration. Concept Exploration and Refinement landers ; Exploration ...

Last week, NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman unveiled a major shakeup in the Artemis Program, intended to put the nation on a better path back to the Moon. The changes focused largely on increasing ...

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 ...

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