No one has been back to the moon for over 50 years, but the reasons why are multifaceted and not obvious at first glance.

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Landing a spacecraft on the moon has long been a series of hits and misses. The latest casualty came this week after Intuitive Machines put another lander sideways on the ...

Firefly Aerospace managed to stay upright when it landed on the moon two weeks ago and announced Monday it had completed its ...

The past couple of weeks has offered us vivid examples in the news of two events, one of which I call a hard landing and ...

After its successful lunar touchdown, Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost mission could soon be joined on the moon by two more commercial spacecraft ...

Until Intuitive Machines' first mission, only national space agencies had achieved the feat, with NASA's last landing dating back to Apollo 17 in 1972. The company's first lander, Odysseus, came in ...

Landing a spacecraft on the moon has long been ... Twelve astronauts explore the surface over six missions, before the program ends with Apollo 17 in 1972. Still the only country to send humans ...

The Houston-based company made history last year when its first Nova-C lander touched down on the Moon, marking the first U.S. landing since Apollo 17 in 1972 and the first private lunar arrival.

(AP) — Landing a spacecraft on the moon has long ... before the program ends with Apollo 17 in 1972. Still the only country to send humans to the moon, the U.S. hopes to return crews to the ...