Astrobotic, a Pittsburgh-based space company carrying NASA instruments, will attempt to be the first commercial company to successfully land on the moon in January 2024. Credit: Astrobotic ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. For the third time in a year, a commercial lunar lander backed by NASA is on its way to the moon's surface. The spacecraft built ...

NASA has selected two science instruments designed for astronauts to deploy on the surface of the moon during the Artemis IV mission to the lunar south polar region. The instruments will improve our ...

NASA has selected three instruments to travel to the moon, with two planned for integration onto an LTV (Lunar Terrain Vehicle) and one for a future orbital opportunity. Subscribe to our newsletter ...

As things stand today, the Artemis III Moon mission is scheduled to depart sometime in 2026. For all intents and purposes, it is perhaps the most important test of the program this decade, because it ...

NEW YORK — NASA is switching off two science instruments on its long-running twin Voyager spacecraft to save power. The space agency said Wednesday an instrument on Voyager 2 that measures charged ...

Launched in 1977, Voyager 1 is the farthest human-made object from Earth, nearing nearly 16 billion miles away. The probe now has two of its original ten science instruments still in operation as NASA ...