By Joey Roulette WASHINGTON, June 30 (Reuters) - NASA on Tuesday awarded $590 million worth of contracts to Astrobotic, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. 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.

Impulse Space’s lunar transportation system concept uses the company’s Helios tug (left) with a new lunar lander the company will develop. Credit: Impulse Space WASHINGTON — In-space transportation ...

"The genius of Apollo was its simplicity." ...

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 ...

With its metaphorical feet held over the allegorical fire by NASA, SpaceX has released a new, simplified plan to build a lander to put US astronauts back on the Moon now that the competition for the ...

Meet Bille, the name given to the world's first monostable tetrahedron—a four-faced object that will always land on the same side, no matter its starting position. This feat of geometry and ...

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 ...

An artist’s conception shows the Orion spacecraft’s main engine firing during a lunar flyby, surrounded by eight auxiliary engines built by L3Harris’ Aerojet Redmond facility. (NASA Illustration) ...

IMAGE: Artist’s illustration of China’s Chang’E 5 moon sample-return spacecraft. CREDIT: CNSA/NASA China is in the middle of an ambitious four-phase lunar exploration program, and the most recently ...

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 ...