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 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 and Intuitive Machines' second attempt to land a spacecraft on the Moon appears to have gone awry—again. The IM-2, also known as Athena, was scheduled to land on the lunar surface today.

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.

For the past week, an uncrewed lunar lander has been journeying through outer space on a 60-day mission to the moon on behalf of NASA. Story by Eric Lagatta, USA TODAY • 6d ...

In April 2021, NASA picked SpaceX to build the first crewed lunar lander for the agency's Artemis program, which is working to put astronauts on the moon in the mid-2020s and establish a ...

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 ...

NASA will be giving another company a chance to send a lander to the moon, nearly a year after the agency announced that SpaceX beat out competitors including Blue Origin and Boeing for the ...

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 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 ...