Two commercial lunar landers are currently on their way to the Moon, and at least two more are set to follow this year under NASA’s Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) initiative. Meanwhile, ...

Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost lander, a private spacecraft hired by NASA to take experiments to the moon, is flying laps ...

Another important aspect of lunar lander systems is the design of landing ... in advancing the understanding of vertical take-off vertical landing (VTVL) concepts. This project investigates ...

The Moon and asteroids are at the top of the mission list for a number of agencies, while others will focus on exploration to ...

A world-leading designer of space robots says gigantic new rockets being tested by billionaires Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos are ...

What happened to China's reusable rocket testbed? A Chinese state-owned company performed a rocket flight on January 18 (US ...

One of the key questions about Blue Origin is whether it will push toward full reusability with New Glenn. In 2021, Ars first ...

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s upcoming trip to Panama marks his first official overseas visit. It emphasises President Donald Trump’s commitment to revisiting the Panama Canal, a key priority ...

On Monday (Jan. 27), Texas-based Firefly released two photos of the moon that Blue Ghost captured from Earth orbit. One shows ...

For the past week, an uncrewed lunar lander has been journeying through outer space on a 60-day mission to the moon on behalf ...

NASA partners with private companies to search for lunar water ice, a key factor for future human exploration of the moon ...