Backed by NASA and its flagship Artemis moon program, private companies are playing an outsized role in the modern moon race with the hopes of stimulating a lunar market. Elon Musk's SpaceX and Jeff ...

private companies are playing an outsized role in the modern moon race with the hopes of stimulating a lunar market. Elon Musk's SpaceX and Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin are building landers to put U.S ...

The Houston-based company put its Athena spacecraft on the moon just after 12:30 p.m. ET. The landing site closer to the lunar south pole than any human or vehicle has traveled before.

This modern-day lunar gold rush has attracted diverse participants, from established space agencies to innovative private firms. One such company in this space race is the Texas-based firm Firefly ...

"Once the last golf ball was hit on the last Apollo mission on the moon everybody said: 'okay, what do we do now?'" says Sean O’Keefe, former NASA Administrator under former president George W Bush.

Technology, science and politics are all essential factors in the Moon race. Here is the latest on various missions: - Russia's Luna - The launch of Luna-25 on August 11 was the first such Russian ...

As a private lunar industry nears liftoff, preservationists seek to guard the artifacts from the first space race. In 2011 NASA ... On the Earth-facing side of the moon 48 years later, undisturbed ...

Several giant leaps for mankind are in the works as the global race to put people on the Moon for the first time since the Apollo missions heats up. This week Japan hopes to become the fifth ...

In 1967 he was recruited to train for his nation's lunar program. He recalled the Soviet reaction to the moon race: "Our people were convinced that we would be the first to land on the moon ...

Firefly Aerospace succeeded in its first attempt to land on the moon with its uncrewed Blue Ghost spacecraft on Sunday, kicking off a two-week research mission as a handful of private firms compete to ...