Any mission heading to the surface of the Moon needs to succeed, first and foremost, a lander. That would be the piece of technology that delivers whatever experiments and gear its operators send up ...

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 ...

Blue Origin on Friday said it was "pausing" flights of its New Shepard rocket for at least two years, effectively cancelling the company's space tourism vehicle.

Blue Origin is pausing its space tourism New Shepard flights to focus on competing with SpaceX to be the moon lander for the Artemis III mission.

To win the superpower race to the Moon, the U.S. could launch a super-speed crusade to develop a lander that beats Chinese taikonauts to the lunar surface. Shown here is Lockheed's leading-edge Orion ...

Scientists may have narrowed down the landing site of the Soviet Union's Luna 9, which in 1966 became the first spacecraft to touch down softly on the moon.

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 ...

NASA's Artemis campaign is the agency's ambitious campaign to return Americans to the surface of the moon for the first time in more than 50 years. Starship, the approximately 400-foot megarocket that ...