This story appears in the March 2019 issue of National Geographic magazine ... MIT astrophysicist Sara Seager demonstrates Starshade, under development at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Lab in Pasadena ...

Athena has landed on the moon, but the overall status of the spacecraft remains unclear. The mission’s plans include studies ...

MAPP, built by the Colorado company Lunar Outpost, will touch down aboard Intuitive Machines' Athena lander at 12:32 p.m. ET ...

The second-ever commercial landing on the moon comes amid a flurry of lunar exploration activity that will see around a dozen ...

NASA and the Italian Space Agency say they have broken the record for the farthest detection of Earth-based navigation signals from 243,000 miles away in space .

Blue Ghost is now sitting on Mare Crisium, a plain made from an ancient hardened lava flow. It's next to a volcanic feature, Mons Latreille, in the northeast on the near side of the moon. The landing ...

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NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter managed to capture a photo of Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost lander on the surface of the ...

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