NASA, for its part, had already spotted the wreckage. About a week after the crash, the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter passed ...

NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter has captured haunting images of a dark smudge and debris where Japan’s Resilience lander ...

The spacecraft's laser range finder, or LRF, experienced an anomaly that prevented Resilience from obtaining valid measurements of its distance from the lunar surface.

NASA already holds a contract with commercial partner SpaceX to develop a lunar lander for Artemis, which aims to land the first woman and the first person of color on the Moon.

NASA’s Dragonfly rotorcraft lander is designed for flight on Saturn's moon Titan. See a "half-scale Dragonfly lander model" ...

Previously, NASA awarded a contract to SpaceX for its Starship vehicle to serve as a lunar lander. That vehicle will be used for NASA's first two lunar landing missions, Artemis III and Artemis IV.

One of those investigations involved a distinctive deep dive into studying the interior of the moon.

Private lunar lander Blue Ghost after touching down on the moon with a special delivery for NASA on Sunday. Moon’s surface and Earth are visible on the horizon, Blue Ghost’s solar panel, X ...

The lander: SpaceX bills Starship as a next-generation spacecraft meant to take humans to the moon and, one day, Mars. Measuring around 160 feet tall and 30 feet in diameter, Starship is a ...

NASA last week quietly delayed its plan to award two high-profile crewed lunar lander contracts, moving the finish line back two months for a crucial program under the Trump administration’s ...

NASA Picks Moon Lander Designs by Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos Rocket Companies. It seems unlikely the space agency will meet President Trump’s goal of a return to the lunar surface by the end of 2024.

NASA had originally chosen all three companies for the initial phase of the contract, and was expected to choose two of them to build the lunar lander. In other major programs, NASA has chosen ...