The Blue Moon Mark 1 (MK1) lunar lander is big, beautiful, and preparing to launch within the next four months. Can Blue Origin actually pull this off? Reading time 3 minutes Riding the high of its ...

Blue Origin’s latest lunar gadget looks less like a sleek spacecraft component and more like a prop from a retro sci-fi set, yet it points to a very real shift in how future missions might power ...

Fresh off its highly successful NG-2 flight, which launched the ESCAPADE Mars probes and featured a successful booster landing, Blue Origin unveiled the Blue Moon Mk1 robotic lander due to fly in 2026 ...

On Friday, Blue Origin won a major NASA contract to deliver a lunar rover to the moon, a strong vote of confidence in both the Blue Moon lander and the future of human exploration. The contract also ...

Dynetics Alpaca and Blue Origin both look like possible 2029-2030 lunar landers if they get funded. The developments are not certain. Reviving the competition will be a $2-5 billion cost. However, ...

Blue Origin plans to launch a lunar resource mapping spacecraft to help identify opportunities to exploit materials available on the Moon. The effort is part of what the space startup calls Project ...

MERRITT ISLAND — Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin has sunk $3 billion to build up its manufacturing plant and launch pad on the Space Coast in the last decade. On Friday, it opened the doors for a rare media ...

Generating electricity on the Moon comes with inherent challenges. For one, solar energy can only be relied upon during the two-Earth-weeks-long lunar daytime, not the equally long night. A separate ...

With all eyes on SpaceX’s efforts to get the Starship super rocket operational, many would be forgiven for imagining that Elon Musk’s company is all that exists in commercial space. But other ...

A growing fleet of privately built spacecraft is preparing to attempt robotic landings on the moon as humanity's exploration ...

NASA is re-evaluating its Human Landing System (HLS) strategy for the Artemis III lunar landing, reopening the contract competition to the broader space industry. SpaceX, the initial HLS contractor, ...