One week ago, a private lunar lander left the ground on a nearly 7-week journey to reach the surface of the moon. The launch may not have had the headline-grabbing power of last year's historic ...

These are exciting times in space exploration, as more and more countries and private enterprises are mastering technology not only to orbit the Earth, but to reach to the Moon and beyond.

The U.S.'s return to the moon with NASA's Artemis program will not be a mere stroll in the park. Instead it will be a perilous journey to a lunar location representing one of the most extreme ...

Four small space companies plan to send rocket ships to the moon this year -- and two of them are already on their way. Intuitive Machines hopes to repeat its successful 2024 moon landing in 2025.

This mission, dubbed IM-2, will land about 100 km from the moon’s south pole. Crain said the first mission, IM-1, was all about demonstrating that the company could get to the moon and survive.

The Moon has been placed on World Monuments Fund's watch list of threatened cultural sites for the first time. The organisation said an increase in tourism and Moon exploration could damage the ...

The World Monuments Watch has published its biennial list of endangered sites, highlighting not only places on Earth but, for the first time, one beyond it: the Moon. Since its inception in 1996 ...

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifted off from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida early Wednesday and deployed two commercial lunar landers on separate trajectories to reach the Moon in the next few ...

Ancient Greeks celebrated the new moon calling it Noumenia. Credit: Carl Young CC BY-SA-4.0 In Ancient Greece, Noumenia, the day of the new moon, was the first day of the month and was considered to ...

The Moonhouse, the size of a big hand, was ready to hitch a ride to the moon on a lunar lander operated by the Japanese company ispace. It was set for transport on SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket that ...

Space X has launched a rocket towards the moon with two private lunar landers on board. The rocket took off from Florida, with landers crafted by Japan's ispace and America's Firefly Aerospace ...