Reporting on missions to the moon and beyond. NASA is aiming to send astronauts back to the moon, because that is what President Trump set as the destination of the agency’s human spaceflight ...

It's a larger, fully reusable version of the rocket that flew humans to the moon, he added, "and it's just really audacious." Why Starship is critical for building on the moon Though the moon isn ...

A robotic lunar lander built by Texas-based company Firefly has successfully landed on the moon, touching down around 2:34 a.m. CT (3:34 a.m. ET). • The lander, called Blue Ghost, launched to ...

Firefly Aerospace became the second company to ever land on the moon on Sunday when its Blue Ghost spacecraft plopped onto the gray dust of a lunar plain known as Mare Crisium. Moon landings have ...

Houston-based company Intuitive Machines put its Athena spacecraft on the moon around 12:31 p.m. ET, but the lander’s exact status is currently unclear. • Mission teams believe the spacecraft ...

collaborator Lorenz Hart. “Blue Moon” opens with two wildly contrasting quotes. One is from Oscar Hammerstein II, who claimed that Hart was “alert and dynamic and fun to be around.” ...

An uncrewed spacecraft developed in the United States has successfully soft-landed on the moon, making Texas-based Firefly Aerospace only the second private-sector company ever to complete such a ...

We tend to think of the moon as a cold, dusty rock, but in fact, its surface can get pretty hot during a lunar day. How hot? It turns out that the answer can vary dramatically over a very short ...

The private Resilience lunar lander just got its first up-close look at the moon. Resilience, which was built by Japanese company ispace, aced a flyby of the moon on Friday evening (Feb. 14 ...

However, he was a strong advocate for Artemis, which aims to return crews to the Moon, establish a sustained presence, and use that experience to prepare for a Mars mission. Though Artemis was ...

Their origins date back to the Tang Dynasty (618–907 AD), when they were first made as offerings to the moon during harvest celebrations. By the Yuan Dynasty (1271–1368 AD), mooncakes took on ...