Lunar landers from Blue Origin, Firefly Aerospace, Intuitive Machines and Astrobotic are gearing up for moon landing attempts in 2026 as the commercial exploration of deep space expands.

Last year delivered doses of drama and excitement in the space business, with a record number of launches, breathtaking vistas of other worlds, and a multitude of breakthroughs and setbacks. 2026 is shaping up to be another thrilling year in the cosmos.

The coming year's space highlights include a NASA mission that will send astronauts around the moon and a Blue Origin lunar lander mission.

From astronauts looping around the moon to spacecraft reaching Mercury and asteroids near Earth, 2026 is shaping up to be a landmark year for space exploration.

The return to the moon story that will dominate the first quarter of 2026 will be the Artemis II mission that will take four astronauts around the moon. The flight will test systems on the Orion spacecraft in deep space with human beings on board. The first human mission to deep space since Apollo 17 will lead to the Artemis III moon landing.

A Houston-based space company just released a tantalizing sneak preview — an image sequence of its robotic spacecraft flying over the moon's south pole, near its planned landing site. This marks Intuitive Machines' second journey to the moon, following ...

Astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson discusses the persistence of Moon landing denial and its disconnect from reality on Logan Paul’s podcast, revealing the scientific evidence and engineering behind the Apollo missions.

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — 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 moon through a NASA-sponsored program. Within 24 hours, the ...

A supercomputer simulation of the Apollo 12 landing on the moon was created to "improve its understanding of plume-surface interactions," according to NASA. Credit: Patrick Moran, NASA Ames Research Center/Andrew Weaver,