Three private missions at once is notable, and it's just the beginning of the moon opening for business. Here's why three companies are flying to the moon right now.

Together, they explore the significance of today’s commercial lunar missions, the evolving business case for space resources, and the critical role of policy, infrastructure, and international ...

Upcoming moon missions will need to plan for how to respond to emergencies on the lunar surface.

Japan also has a Moon mission underway A Japanese company currently has a lander traveling through space that is scheduled to touch down on the Moon in June 2025. The Resilience lander is ...

As part of its 50th anniversary, Oakley revealed the tech it will supply to NASA astronauts for the Artemis III mission to ...

Intuitive Machines is preparing IM-2, a Nova-C lunar lander dubbed Athena, for a mission to the moon’s south pole. Onboard the lander is NASA’s Polar Resources Ice Mining Experiment-1 (PRIME-1 ...

That’s not necessarily the case for all of Gateway’s science, the future of which is still to be determined. Buskirk-Dudley said later missions may study neutrinos.

Engineers, technicians, mission planners, and the four astronauts set to fly around the moon next year on Artemis II, NASA's first crewed Artemis mission, are rapidly progressing toward launch.

Intuitive Machines launches its second moon lander, which will use NASA and commercially developed tools to search for ice in the moon's crust.

Resilience, a spacecraft built by Japan-based company Ispace, crashed while attempting to touch down on the moon. If successful, it would have been the first private-sector lunar lander built ...

Intuitive Machines’ next lunar landing brings a state-of-the-art drill, multiple rovers, and a drone that will fly into a crater’s permanent shadow.

Cambridge-based Draper Labs is set to launch their NASA-funded CP-12 mission in 2026, racing Texas-based Firefly Aerospace to complete the United States’ first landing on the far side of the moon.