Back then, the elements that eventually coalesced into the Gateway were geared toward a nebulous initiative to capture a ...

A privately owned lunar lander touched down on the moon Thursday, but as the minutes dragged on, flight controllers could not ...

The lunar south pole had become the trendy destination for major space powers, attracted by its frozen water masses ... its manned Artemis 2 mission to orbit the Moon in September 2025, nor ...

A key piece of NASA’s lunar future has landed in the U.S. – the HALO module, destined for the Moon’s orbit as part of Gateway ...

Intuitive Machines’ newest Athena lander dropped out of lunar orbit as planned ... shadowed crater near the landing site in search of frozen water. To lower costs even more, Intuitive Machines ...

Trust Me, I Was There A space station in lunar orbit will accomplish nothing. NASA needs to choose a rational goal. At the recent Space Foundation conference held in Colorado Springs, NASA ...

March 31: Luna 10 launches from the Soviet Union. The unmanned probe will achieve lunar orbit -- the first object to do so -- and send information about the moon back to earth. May 30: The ...

As the Moon continues around its orbit the crescent grows in size, known as waxing, as more of the illuminated part of the Moon becomes visible. Image caption, When the Moon is one quarter of the ...