Firefly Aerospace autonomous navigation is now fully in-house: the AI that executed two hazard avoidance maneuvers on the ...

Astrobotic has publicly unveiled its Griffin-1 lunar lander — the vehicle NASA has selected ...

Astrobotic showed off the lunar lander it plans to launch later this year that will be the vanguard of NASA’s new lunar base ...

Dynetics Alpaca and Blue Origin both look like possible 2029-2030 lunar landers if they get funded. The developments are not certain. Reviving the competition will be a $2-5 billion cost. However, ...

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 — Japanese company ispace is revising its lunar lander design and further delaying the first mission by its American subsidiary while also unveiling plans for a lunar satellite ...

For decades, the European Space Agency (ESA) has been a sort of trusted sidekick for the much larger NASA. In some respects, that continues to this day, as ESA is backing the Americans' push for the ...

An artist’s conception shows the integrated design for the Blue Moon Mark 2 lander. (Blue Origin Illustration) NASA is reworking its Artemis moon program to add a test mission for commercial lunar ...

Astrobotic unveiled its next lander headed to the moon: Griffin-1, which will carry one of the heaviest payloads ever ...

The same historic facilities that some 50 years ago prepared NASA's twin Voyager probes for their ongoing interstellar odyssey are helping to ready a towering commercial spacecraft for a journey to ...