Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A NASA SCALPSS camera filming the landing of the Blue Ghost spacecraft on the moon on March 2. It was a perfect moon landing.

UPDATE for 9 p.m. ET: NASA's Orion spacecraft has successfully returned to Earth to return its Artemis 2 astronauts to Earth. See video and photos of the Artemis 2 splashdown in our wrap story. See ...

It’s a thrilling week for the moon: not only did this weekend see the landing of the Firefly Aerospace Blue Ghost mission, but there’s another lunar landing happening imminently too. Intuitive ...

On Jan. 19, 2024, at 10:20 a.m. EST, the JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) Smart Lander for Investigating Moon (SLIM) landed on the lunar surface. Five days later, NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance ...

A 15-foot-tall spacecraft had an imperfect landing on the moon. The NASA-funded mission to the moon, operated by the Houston space exploration company Intuitive Machines, touched down on March 6, but ...

Early in the morning of Nov. 2 , 2025, SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket roared off its pad at the Space Launch Complex in Cape Canaveral, carrying the dedicated rideshare mission known as Bandwagon-4 into ...

The Apollo 17 mission landed on the Moon on December 11, in 1972. From that point on, literally for decades, NASA and the United States did not go back to the surface of our nearest planetary body. It ...

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What goes up, must come down. While the flashiest part of space exploration is the launch, the landing is just as important to completing the mission, and they may one day be completed at Cecil ...

Contrary to appearances, the vehicle that looked like a little space shuttle was not broken down when it was being hauled down the runway at Kennedy Space Center. Sierra Space’s Dream Chaser ...