We are used to the Moon being bright white, silvery, yellow, or tinged with orange or red. But in rare circumstances the Moon ...

An artist’s conception shows the Orion spacecraft’s main engine firing during a lunar flyby, surrounded by eight auxiliary engines built by L3Harris’ Aerojet Redmond facility. (NASA Illustration) ...

Four uncrewed lunar lander missions are set for 2026, paving the way for NASA's Artemis program to return humans to the moon.

Astronaut safety and delays were top concerns in a new audit of NASA’s plans to use either SpaceX’s Starship or Blue Origin’s Blue Moon lunar landers on future Artemis missions, although costs have ...

Private space exploration company Blue Origin said its Blue Moon MK1 lunar lander arrived in Houston for testing. A lunar lander from the private space exploration company Blue Origin is in Houston ...

Blue Origin’s next launch from the Space Coast could still be its uncrewed and newly named Blue Moon MK1 lander, but it will have to take a trip to Houston and back before it can get to the moon. The ...

ORLANDO, Florida—Blue Origin’s first lunar lander, known as Blue Moon Mark 1 (MK1), is en route to NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston for thermal vacuum testing ahead of launch later this year, ...

The decision comes as NASA prepares to send four astronauts around the moon in 2026 during a mission known as Artemis 2, which would set the stage for future moon landings. Blue Origin has a $3.6 ...

Blue Origin is pausing its West Texas flights for at least two years so it can focus on helping NASA return humans to the moon. The company's suborbital rocket began launching people in 2021 and has ...