NASA selected landers from (left to right) Astrobotic, Intuitive Machines and Firefly Aerospace for missions launching in late 2028. Credit: Astrobotic/Intuitive Machines/Firefly Aerospace WASHINGTON — NASA has selected three companies to fly four ...

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 spacecraft has been reopened due to delays. NASA's ...

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. Already, three landers manufactured by two different ...

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 world, a vast steel vessel that can recreate the airless ...

China’s Manned Space Engineering Network says the country’s first crewed lunar lander last week completed a comprehensive landing and takeoff verification test ...