Resilience launched on Jan. 15 aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket that also carried another private moon lander: Firefly ...

But its hard touchdown - due to a faulty laser altimeter ... The region is eyed by major space powers for its potential for resource extraction once astronauts return to the surface - subsurface ...

which died 12 hours after touchdown Space photo of the week: The last sight you see before dying on the moon "With annual lunar missions, Firefly is paving the way for a lasting lunar presence ...

critical seconds before touchdown. Blue Ghost carries 10 NASA science and technology instruments aboard as part of the space agency’s Commercial Lunar Payload Services, or CLPS, initiative.

Sharing a ride to space with Blue Ghost aboard the same SpaceX ... but it tipped over on touchdown and was unable to complete all its planned research. Athena also was funded in large part by ...

The firms plans to establish aerospace manufacturing, research and development, warehousing and administrative facilities, a ...

Commercial company ispace announced its lunar lander had entered orbit around the moon ahead of a June landing attempt.

“It just remained noisy all the way until touchdown,” Crain said ... German aerospace agency DLR and Hungarian company Puli Space. Intuitive Machines plans to perform at least five hops ...

Fresh from space, NASA’s oldest full-time astronaut said Monday that weightlessness made him feel decades younger, with everyday aches and pains vanishing.