No one has set foot on the lunar surface since 1972, when NASA astronaut Eugene Cernan finished the final Apollo mission. NASA had initially planned to land on the moon with Artemis III by 2024 ...

CLPS, started in 2018, is a public-private partnership model through which NASA contracts commercial landers to deliver science and technology payloads to the lunar surface. Blue Ghost Mission 1 ...

Cantwell and other Senators pressed Isaacman on plans to use NASA’s Space Launch System rocket as part of the overall plan to get astronauts to the lunar surface. Isaacman sounded as if he were ...

Intuitive Machines may have crashed its latest moon lander on the lunar surface, but that's not keeping the company down for long. The Houston-based company has picked SpaceX to launch IM-4 ...

That the water content within the lunar far and near sides differs seems “coincidentally consistent” with the variations in the surface features of the moon’s two hemispheres, said Sen Hu ...

You can opt-out at any time. What’s more, scientific data gathered on the lunar surface will pave the way for commercial missions, said David Wheeler, Firefly general counsel. Regolith sample ...

The photo shows Buzz Aldrin standing next to the lunar seismometer at that time ... occurred within 100 kilometers of the moon's surface. Data recorded between 1972 and 1977 detected 62 moonquakes.

Lunar regolith isn't just abundant—it's also clingy. Its electrostatic properties mean it sticks to anything it touches, and its abrasiveness means each tiny grain can scratch the surface of ...

To do so, astronauts would swap the glass made on Earth with that made from lunar regolith, or the loose, rocky surface that is found on the Moon. That would allow them to reduce the mass of a ...

New shielding technology from NASA that protects against damaging lunar dust just passed a trial run on the moon's surface, marking an important milestone in the agency's lunar aspirations.