Lately, there's been plenty of progress in 3D printing objects from the lunar regolith. We've reported on several projects ...

The hybrid motor combines solid fuel with gaseous oxygen to generate a powerful exhaust stream, mimicking the conditions of a real lunar lander.

A militarized lunar lander would share many of the same features as a commercial variant, although its supply chain would ...

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 ...

China has chosen payloads from a range of international partners to fly on the country’s Chang’e-8 lunar south pole mission, ...

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colorado — Lessons learned and on-the-spot surprises from the first fully successful commercial lunar lander mission bolsters the chances of long-term robotic and human ...

Last February, a small, four-wheeled rover built by the company hitched a ride aboard Intuitive Machines’ IM-2 lunar lander mission. Complications during the landing, however, meant that Lunar ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla.--A privately owned lunar lander touched down on the moon with a drill, drone and rovers for NASA and other customers Thursday, but quickly ran into trouble and may have ...

Once the mission was complete, the top portion of the lunar lander would leave the moon, return to lunar orbit, and rendezvous with the command/service module; it would be jettisoned into Earth ...

China is getting ready to 3D-print bricks on the moon using lunar soil, in what could be ... The plans follow on from a series of successful orbiter, lander and rover and sample return missions ...