Private space exploration company Blue Origin said its Blue Moon MK1 lunar lander arrived in Houston for testing. A lunar lander from the private space exploration company Blue Origin is in Houston ...

Data from a NASA lunar orbiter has helped researchers deduce two potential locations for a defunct Soviet spacecraft called Luna 9 ...

However, researchers may now be closer than ever to finding the Soviet Union’s Luna 9 spacecraft. Using an advanced machine learning program, an international team of scientists believe they have ...

The lander became the first spacecraft to send back pictures of the Moon, three years before Apollo 11. The post Scientists Spot Signs of Derelict Soviet Moon Lander on Lunar Surface appeared first on ...

Only one of these patches of lunar plain can be Luna 9’s actual landing site – and there’s no guarantee that either of them is. But the search is oddly compelling.

SpaceX won a NASA Human Landing System award in 2021 to develop a lunar lander version of Starship for the Artemis 3 mission. Credit: SpaceX WASHINGTON — A NASA authorization bill the House Science ...

ORLANDO, Florida—Blue Origin’s first lunar lander, known as Blue Moon Mark 1 (MK1), is en route to NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston for thermal vacuum testing ahead of launch later this year, ...

Intuitive Machines "Odysseus" lunar lander captured amazing views of Earth after separation from a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket upper stage. Credit: Intuitive Machines | edited by Space.com Music: Quest for ...

The decision comes as NASA prepares to send four astronauts around the moon in 2026 during a mission known as Artemis 2, which would set the stage for future moon landings. Blue Origin has a $3.6 ...

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

Humanity’s first successful lunar lander is missing. Sixty years ago the Soviet Luna 9 became the first human-made object to achieve a soft landing on the moon—or, for that matter, any celestial body.