NASA, for its part, had already spotted the wreckage. About a week after the crash, the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter passed about 50 miles above the landing site, Mare Frigoris — and snapped a photo ...

The Firefly Aerospace Blue Ghost lander on the moon was captured by NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter. Credit: Space.com | ...

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.

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 ...

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER — NASA showcased the next lunar lander from Intuitive Machines on Friday afternoon, which is the same company to be the first commercial business to land on the moon.

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 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 ...

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.